R Observatory: Metrics for matrixNormal version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

matrixNormal

0.1.2Package record

The Matrix Normal Distribution

3packages depend

7.6Kdownloads / year

4.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul M. HargartenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Computes densities, probabilities, and random deviates of the Matrix Normal (Pocuca et al. (2019) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1910.02859). Also includes simple but useful matrix functions. See the vignette for more information.

Changes in 0.1.2

Updated word list in spelling list to remove CRAN note

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("matrixNormal", 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("phargarten2/matrixNormal")

Development version from phargarten2/matrixNormal. 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-matrixnormal

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-matrixNormal

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-matrixNormal

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-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Matrix Normal Package

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,255 · ~21/day · ~631/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

94430 days

2K90 days

7.6K1 year

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Also on140 r2u2 autocran103 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

phargarten2/matrixnormal ↗Account: phargarten2

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

9Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 9 commits · Last activity 2021-12-30 · The default branch showed an older version (0.0.5) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 128
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2020-08-07 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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/phargarten2/matrixnormal on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0statsutils

Imports (1)

mvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

formatR knitr LaplacesDemon matrixcalc (>= 1.0-3)matrixsampling MBSP rmarkdown roxygen2 sessioninfo spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

keyATM condTruncMVN mvGPS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Paul M. Hargarten

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.0.4

Maintainer since 0.0.0 (2018)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul Hargarten

no longer listed · 0.0.0 to 0.0.1

Releases (7)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-30
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 36 KB

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Probability Distributions

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("matrixNormal")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 matrixNormal version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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