R Observatory: Metrics for testarguments version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

testarguments

0.0.1Package record

Test (Multiple) Arguments of a User-Defined Prediction Algorithm

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Sainsbury-DaleCRAN page ↗

Finding the best values for user-specified arguments of a prediction algorithm can be difficult, particularly if there is an interaction between argument levels. This package automates the testing of any user-defined prediction algorithm over an arbitrary number of arguments. It includes functions for testing the algorithm over the given arguments with respect to an arbitrary number of user-defined diagnostics, visualising the results of these tests, and finding the optimal argument combinations with respect to each diagnostic.

Install

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

install.packages("testarguments", 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-testarguments

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-testarguments

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-testarguments

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: 1.9 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 0.0.1

READMEYes · 667 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 33%1 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

testarguments HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,640 · ~6/day · ~189/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23930 days

63690 days

2.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing testarguments adds 30 packages (16 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

magrittr ggplot2 reshape2 plyrmethodsstatsdplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown markdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Matthew Sainsbury-Dale

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2021)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.1Latest
record
2021-05-28 · current release
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-28
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 343 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("testarguments")

Format

Sainsbury-Dale, M. (2021). testarguments: Test (Multiple) Arguments of a User-Defined Prediction Algorithm (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.testarguments

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for testarguments version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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