R Observatory: Metrics for smartcor version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smartcor

1.0.1

Automatic Correlation Method Selection Based on Variable Types

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14downloads / year

69.3%test coverage

8/8checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by M. HarshvardhanFirst published 2026-08-091 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Detects variable types (continuous, count, binary, ordinal, categorical) and selects the appropriate correlation method for each pair. Supports Pearson, Spearman, Kendall's tau, point-biserial, rank-biserial, phi, tetrachoric, polychoric, polyserial, Cramer's V, Tschuprow's T, Theil's U, Yule's Q, and Goodman-Kruskal's gamma, each with a confidence interval and p-value. Explains the selection rationale in the output, follows tidy data principles, and works in both interactive and scripted workflows. The methodology is described in Harshvardhan and Ranjan (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.22285.

Install

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

install.packages("smartcor", 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("harshvardhaniimi/smartcor")

Development version from harshvardhaniimi/smartcor. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-smartcor

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-smartcor

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

Health

CRAN checks

8OK

Slowest check: 8.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

69.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-10
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 236 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 77%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

14

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Rank #24,916 · ~0/day · ~1/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ harshvardhaniimi/smartcor

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (12)

cli generics ggplot2graphicsgrDevicesmvtnorm polycor rlangstatstibbleutilswithr

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none

Suggests (4)

knitrMASSrmarkdown testthat

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

M. Harshvardhan

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

M. Harshvardhan

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Pritam Ranjan

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (2)

M. Harshvardhan

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Pritam Ranjan

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.1Latest
2026-08-09 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("smartcor")

Format

Harshvardhan, M., & Ranjan, P. (2026). smartcor: Automatic Correlation Method Selection Based on Variable Types (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.smartcor

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for smartcor version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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