R Observatory: Metrics for GFisher version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GFisher

0.2.1Package record

Generalized Fisher's Combination Tests Under Dependence

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zheyang WuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Accurate and computationally efficient p-value calculation methods for a general family of Fisher type statistics (GFisher). The GFisher covers Fisher's combination, Good's statistic, Lancaster's statistic, weighted Z-score combination, etc. It allows a flexible weighting scheme, as well as an omnibus procedure that automatically adapts proper weights and degrees of freedom to a given data. The new p-value calculation methods are based on novel ideas of moment-ratio matching and joint-distribution approximation. The technical details can be found in Hong Zhang and Zheyang Wu (2022) doi:10.1111/biom.13634.

Changes in 0.2.1

New maintainer: Zheyang Wu (<zheyangwu@wpi.edu>).
The package now has a public repository and issue tracker: <https://github.com/ZWuLab/GFisher>. Added Authors@R, URL, and BugReports fields to DESCRIPTION.
The reference in Description now points to the published paper (Zhang and Wu, 2022, Biometrics, <doi:10.1111/biom.13634>) instead of the arXiv preprint.
No changes to functions or computations.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GFisher", 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("ZWuLab/GFisher")

Development version from ZWuLab/GFisher. 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-gfisher

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-GFisher

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-GFisher

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-28
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,071 · ~7/day · ~227/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26430 days

80490 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on81 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

zwulab/gfisher ↗Organization: ZWuLab

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

2Commits

1Commit identities

instructions

2 commits · Last activity 2026-09-02 · Default branch at 0.3.1, ahead of CRAN 0.2.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Commits over time

2026-08-30 · 12026-09-15 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zwulab/gfisher on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-02

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GFisher adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsmethodsMatrixmvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Zheyang Wu

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2026) · added in 0.2.0

Hong Zhang

Author

Previously maintained by Hong Zhang (0.1.0 to 0.2.0).

Releases (3)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-22
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 5.4 KB

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GFisher")

Format

Wu, Z., & Zhang, H. (2026). GFisher: Generalized Fisher's Combination Tests Under Dependence (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GFisher

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 GFisher version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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