R Observatory: Metrics for MRS version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MRS

1.3.2Package record

Multi-Resolution Scanning for Cross-Sample and Cross-Group Differences

0packages depend

916downloads / year

92.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Li MaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the multi-resolution scanning (MRS) method for cross-sample distribution comparisons, as described in Soriano and Ma (2017) doi:10.1111/rssb.12180, and the analysis of distributional variation (ANDOVA) method for cross-group comparisons introduced in Ma and Soriano (2018) doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1402774. Both methods use nonparametric models on multi-resolution partition trees to detect and characterize differences among distributions, with tools for visualizing the results.

Changes in 1.3.2

Standardized reproducibility seeds across examples, demos, tests, and archived simulation scripts to 12345.
Consolidated the former standalone examples into three non-redundant, reproducible visual demos. They cover one-dimensional Bayesian FDR, observed-versus-shuffled two-dimensional scans, pooled versus replicate-aware fitting across small, medium, and large replicate counts, both ANDOVA integration methods, baseline effects, and representative multiresolution trees.
Restored current CRAN metadata and registered all native routines.
Replaced deprecated Armadillo index-returning max() calls and fixed an uninitialized-variable path in the C++ tree traversal.
Added input validation that prevents invalid dimensions, labels, bounds, and tuning parameters from reaching the C++ core.

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Restored the version 1.2.6 ANDOVA midpoint-quadrature default; deterministic and randomized compatibility suites now reproduce legacy numerical and tree results.
Preserved the legacy default sample-space bounds for ordinary data while safely supporting constant and non-positive dimensions.
Documented posterior sampling, effect-size baselines, numerical integration, and Bayesian-FDR plotting introduced on the development branch.
Fixed posterior sample matrix shaping and direction probabilities, multidimensional sampling, sampling without a representative tree, Bayesian-FDR matrix indexing, and a Riemann-quadrature second-moment error.
Kept sampled ANDOVA probabilities inside their valid domain and removed undefined behavior in dyadic bin conversion and region reconstruction.
Added numerical compatibility, posterior-sampling, invariant, validation, plotting, and native-routine regression tests.
Removed the unused optimx dependency and replaced the igraph-backed representative-tree renderer with a deterministic base-graphics renderer.
Added explicit return-value documentation for all exported plotting and print methods, including the meaning of their graphical or printed side effects.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MRS", 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("MaStatLab/MRS")

Development version from MaStatLab/MRS. 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-mrs

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-MRS

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-MRS

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-23

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

READMEYes · 267 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.3.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 88%

Also includes 3 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

916

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,387 · ~3/day · ~76/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29330 days

86290 days

9161 year

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Also on321 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mastatlab/mrs ↗Organization: MaStatLabFork of jacsor/MRS

0Stars

0Forks

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-07-22

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: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mastatlab/mrs on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MRS adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (2)

KernSmoothtestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Li Ma

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.4 (2018)

Jacopo Soriano

Author

Previously maintained by Jacopo Soriano (1.0 to 1.2.3).

Releases (11)

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2026-07-22
1.3.2Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-02-03
issues were not corrected in time UBSAN error at https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/M1-SAN/MRS/
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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 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-10-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-07
Total releases: 11 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 44 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MRS")

Format

Ma, L., & Soriano, J. (2026). MRS: Multi-Resolution Scanning for Cross-Sample and Cross-Group Differences (Version 1.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MRS

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 MRS version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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