R Observatory: Metrics for sparseMVN version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseMVN

0.2.2Package record

Multivariate Normal Functions for Sparse Covariance and Precision Matrices

5packages depend

7.8Kdownloads / year

23.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael BraunCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Computes multivariate normal (MVN) densities, and samples from MVN distributions, when the covariance or precision matrix is sparse.

Changes in 0.2.2

Added links to new pkgdown website
Suggests packages used conditionally in tests
Other minor fixes

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sparseMVN", 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("braunm/sparseMVN")

Development version from braunm/sparseMVN. 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-sparsemvn

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-sparseMVN

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-sparseMVN

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: 1.8 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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

The sparseMVN package

How these are measured

Downloads

7.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,457 · ~21/day · ~648/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62330 days

1.9K90 days

7.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on347 r2u4 autocran1.3K conda_forge134 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

braunm/sparsemvn ↗Account: braunm

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

108Commits

2Commit identities

108 commits · Last activity 2021-12-31 · Default branch at 0.2.2.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.2.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2022-08-19 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/braunm/sparsemvn on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-12-31

pkgdown site last built 2021-10-31

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (2)

Matrixmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

dplyr tidyr ggplot2 forcats (>= 0.5)mvtnorm knitr bookdown kableExtra testthat scales trustOptim

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bage spsur disaggregation sparseCov DAST

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Michael Braun

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 2 exports
dmvn.sparse, rmvn.sparse

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-05
Total releases: 5 / 13 yrs
License: MPL (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 454 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sparseMVN")

Format

Braun, M. (2021). sparseMVN: Multivariate Normal Functions for Sparse Covariance and Precision Matrices (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparseMVN

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseMVN version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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