R Observatory: Metrics for sparseMVN version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseMVN

0.2.2

Multivariate Normal Functions for Sparse Covariance and Precision Matrices

5packages depend

8.8Kdownloads / year

23.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael BraunFirst published 2013-11-055 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

23.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,362 · ~24/day · ~736/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ braunm/sparsemvn

3Stars

0Forks

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0Open PRs

3Releases

108Commits

2Contributors

108 commits · Last activity 2021-12-31

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/braunm/sparsemvn on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

DAST bage disaggregation sparseCov spsur

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Braun

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Michael Braun

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Michael Braun

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseMVN version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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