R Observatory: Metrics for skewt version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

skewt

1.0Package record

The Skewed Student-t Distribution

2packages dependsuggested by 3

50.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert KingCRAN page ↗

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the skewed t distribution of Fernandez and Steel.

Install

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

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

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

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-skewt

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-skewt

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-skewt

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: 42 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

50.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,137 · ~139/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.7K30 days

8.4K90 days

50.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on147 r2u3 autocran152 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

GenHMM1d asymmetry.measures

Suggests, most downloaded first

robustbase robustlmm fitteR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Robert King

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2004)

Emily Anderson

Author · added in 1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

with contributions from Emily Anderson.

no longer listed · 0.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-29
Total releases: 2 / 14 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 2.2 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("skewt")

Format

King, R., & Anderson, E. (2021). skewt: The Skewed Student-t Distribution (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.skewt

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for skewt version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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