R Observatory: Metrics for rust version 1.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rust

1.4.4Package record

Ratio-of-Uniforms Simulation with Transformation

6packages depend

27.9Kdownloads / year

66.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.4.4

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Implements the patch described in Rcpp Issue #1406 to avoid masking of Rf_error().

From NEWS.md in the release

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.4.4

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%8 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 77%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

27.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,755 · ~77/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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1.9K30 days

5.5K90 days

27.9K1 year

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Repository

paulnorthrop/rust ↗Account: paulnorthrop

0Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

20Releases

579Commits

1Commit identities

simulationrcppratio-of-uniformstransformationratioofuniformsbayesian-inference

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 64

Forks over time

2018-05-20 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/paulnorthrop/rust on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rust adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (3)

graphicsRcppstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (6)

bang knitr microbenchmark revdbayes rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

2indirect

Imports 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Paul J. Northrop

Listed in earlier versions (2)

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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Northrop, P. J. (2026). rust: Ratio-of-Uniforms Simulation with Transformation (Version 1.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rust

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rust version 1.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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