R Observatory: Metrics for sfsmisc version 1.1-26

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sfsmisc

1.1-26Package record

Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich

33packages dependsuggested by 20

265.4Kdownloads / year

12.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin MaechlerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Useful utilities ['goodies'] from Seminar fuer Statistik ETH Zurich, some of which were ported from S-plus in the 1990s. For graphics, have pretty (Log-scale) axes eaxis(), an enhanced Tukey-Anscombe plot, combining histogram and boxplot, 2d-residual plots, a 'tachoPlot()', pretty arrows, etc. For robustness, have a robust F test and robust range(). For system support, notably on Linux, provides 'Sys.*()' functions with more access to system and CPU information. Finally, miscellaneous utilities such as simple efficient prime numbers, integer codes, Duplicated(), toLatex.numeric() and is.whole().

Changes in 1.1-26

DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT

formatN() is deprecated, as it is relatively new, and packages Rmpfr and gmp already have an S3 generic called formatN() with several methods.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sfsmisc", 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("mmaechler/sfsmisc")

Development version from mmaechler/sfsmisc. 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-sfsmisc

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-sfsmisc

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-sfsmisc

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: 2.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-21

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-17
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1-26

READMEYes · 139 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 1.1-26Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 105 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 99%99 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition) · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 16%

Also includes 3 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

265.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #757 · ~727/day · ~22.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22.1K30 days

64.6K90 days

265.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.5K r2u194 autocran10.8K conda_forge284 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mmaechler/sfsmisc ↗Account: mmaechler

10Stars

7Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

821Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 821 commits · Last activity 2026-09-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-08-09 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mmaechler/sfsmisc on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sfsmisc adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

grDevicesutilsstatstools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

datasetstcltkclusterlatticeMASSMatrixnlmelokern Rmpfr gmp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

33direct

65indirect

Depends 5 · Imports 28

Suggested by 20

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

Matrix expm robustbase stabledist DHARMa Rmpfr copula Bessel corrgram TAM CDM longmemo sirt nlmixr2est bfast

and 5 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (24)

Martin Maechler

Author, Maintainer since 0.9-1 (2004)

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Christoph Buser

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

to function Duplicated()

Vincent Carey

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Sandrine Dudoit

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Isabelle Flückiger

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Jane Fridlyand

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Charles Geyer

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Philippe Grosjean

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

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Lorenz Gygax

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

to function p.res.2fact()

Kjetil Halvorsen

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: KSd(), ecdf.ksCI()

Alain Hauser

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: cairoSwd(), is.whole(), toLatex.numeric()*

Frédéric Ibanez

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Christian Keller

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: histBxp(), p.tachoPlot()

Markus Keller

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Henrik Aa. Nielsen

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

to loessDemo()

Jens Oehlschlägel

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Tony Plate

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

to inv.seq()

Andreas Ruckstuhl

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: p.arrows(), p.profileTraces(), p.res.2x()

Caterina Savi

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Greg Snow

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

to loessDemo()

Werner Stahel

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: compresid2way(), f.robftest(), last(), p.scales(), p.dnorm()

Bill Venables

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Functions: empty.dimnames(), primes()

Marcel Wolbers

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Listed in earlier versions (2)

many others.

no longer listed · 0.9-1 to 1.0-22

Martin Maechler et al.

no longer listed · 1.0-23 to 1.1-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-02-06
Total releases: 77 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 187 KB

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Maechler, M., Bolker, B., Buser, C., Carey, V., Dudoit, S., Flückiger, I., Fridlyand, J., Geyer, C., Grosjean, P., Gygax, L., Halvorsen, K., Hauser, A., Ibanez, F., Keller, C., Keller, M., Nielsen, H. A., Oehlschlägel, J., Plate, T., Ruckstuhl, A., Savi, C., Snow, G., Stahel, W., Venables, B., & Wolbers, M. (2026). sfsmisc: Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich (Version 1.1-26) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sfsmisc

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sfsmisc version 1.1-26 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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