R Observatory: Metrics for smoothtail version 2.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smoothtail

2.0.6Package record

Smooth Estimation of GPD Shape Parameter

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kaspar RufibachCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Given independent and identically distributed observations X(1), ..., X(n) from a Generalized Pareto distribution with shape parameter gamma in [-1,0], offers several estimates to compute estimates of gamma. The estimates are based on the principle of replacing the order statistics by quantiles of a distribution function based on a log--concave density function. This procedure is justified by the fact that the GPD density is log--concave for gamma in [-1,0].

Install

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

install.packages("smoothtail", 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-smoothtail

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-smoothtail

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-smoothtail

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.0.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,788 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

Releases R versions

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28130 days

70190 days

2.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing smoothtail adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 8.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mclust 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, kernlab 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

logcondens

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Kaspar Rufibach

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2006)

Samuel Mueller

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kaspar Ru{f}{i}bach

no longer listed · 2.0.3 to 2.0.5

Releases (12)

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-12-02
Total releases: 12 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 8.6 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("smoothtail")

Format

Rufibach, K., & Mueller, S. (2025). smoothtail: Smooth Estimation of GPD Shape Parameter (Version 2.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.smoothtail

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for smoothtail version 2.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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