R Observatory: Metrics for rust version 1.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rust

1.4.4

Ratio-of-Uniforms Simulation with Transformation

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33.4Kdownloads / year

66.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropFirst published 2016-10-1022 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Uses the generalized ratio-of-uniforms (RU) method to simulate from univariate and (low-dimensional) multivariate continuous distributions. The user specifies the log-density, up to an additive constant. The RU algorithm is applied after relocation of mode of the density to zero, and the user can choose a tuning parameter r. For details see Wakefield, Gelfand and Smith (1991) DOI:10.1007/BF01889987, Efficient generation of random variates via the ratio-of-uniforms method, Statistics and Computing (1991) 1, 129-133. A Box-Cox variable transformation can be used to make the input density suitable for the RU method and to improve efficiency. In the multivariate case rotation of axes can also be used to improve efficiency. From version 1.2.0 the 'Rcpp' package https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rcpp can be used to improve efficiency.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("rust", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("paulnorthrop/rust")

Development version from paulnorthrop/rust. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rust

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-rust

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-rust

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.22

66.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 77%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

33.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,490 · ~92/day · ~2.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paulnorthrop/rust

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License GPL-3.0 · 579 commits · Last activity 2026-01-11

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Repository practices

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (3)

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo

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Code & Tests

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Paul J. Northrop

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Authors (1)

Paul J. Northrop

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Paul J. Northrop

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Paul Northrop

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Paul J.

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 1.4.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-10
Total releases: 22 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 777 KB
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