R Observatory: Metrics for binfunest version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

binfunest

0.1.0Package record

Estimates Parameters of Functions Driving Binomial Random Variables

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Philip SheaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides maximum likelihood estimates of the performance parameters that drive a binomial distribution of observed errors, and takes full advantage of zero error observations. High performance communications systems typically have inherent noise sources and other performance limitations that need to be estimated. Measurements made at high signal to noise ratios typically result in zero errors due to limitation in available measurement time. Package includes theoretical performance functions for common modulation schemes (Proakis, "Digital Communications" (1995, <ISBN:0-07-051726-6>)), polarization shifted QPSK (Agrell & Karlsson (2009, DOI:10.1109/JLT.2009.2029064)), and utility functions to work with the performance functions.

Changes in 0.1.0

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
This is the first release of the package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("binfunest", 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("PhilShea/binfunest")

Development version from PhilShea/binfunest. 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-binfunest

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-binfunest

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-binfunest

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Estimating B2B Q and Offsets

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,696 · ~7/day · ~223/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29030 days

77690 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u39 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

philshea/binfunest ↗Account: PhilShea

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

68Commits

1Commit identities

68 commits · Last activity 2022-10-25 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 27
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/philshea/binfunest on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing binfunest adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 389 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pracma 389 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

pracmastatsstats4

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Philip Shea

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

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
0.1.0Latest
record
2022-09-09 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-09
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 119 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("binfunest")

Format

Shea, P. (2022). binfunest: Estimates Parameters of Functions Driving Binomial Random Variables (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.binfunest

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for binfunest version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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