BenfordTests

1.2.0

Statistical Tests for Evaluating Conformity to Benford's Law

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Overview

About

Maintained by Dieter William JoenssenFirst published 2013-04-167 releasesCRAN page ↗

Several specialized statistical tests and support functions for determining if numerical data could conform to Benford's law.

Install

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

install.packages("BenfordTests", 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-benfordtests

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-BenfordTests

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

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Dependencies

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Depends (4)

R >= 3.0.0grDevicesgraphicsstats

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dieter William Joenssen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Dieter William Joenssen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Thomas Muellerleile

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Dieter William Joenssen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-04-16
Total releases: 7 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 17 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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