stcov

0.1.0

Stein's Covariance Estimator

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2Kdownloads / year

96.0%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Brett NaulFirst published 2016-04-131 releasesCRAN page ↗

Estimates a covariance matrix using Stein's isotonized covariance estimator, or a related estimator suggested by Haff.

Install

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

install.packages("stcov", 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-stcov

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

# 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-stcov

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 48 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Brett Naul

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-13
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 2.7 KB
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