MASS

7.3-66

Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS

2,890packages depend

1.8Mdownloads / year

35.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian RipleyFirst published 2009-05-0878 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley, "Modern Applied Statistics with S" (4th edition, 2002).

Install

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

install.packages("MASS", 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-mass

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

# 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-MASS

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-MASS

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 82%

Downloads

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Dependencies

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0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 4.4.0grDevicesgraphicsstatsutils

Imports (1)

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Suggests (4)

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Reverse dependencies

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and 2,842 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-17

Authors (2)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-17

Bill Venables

Author, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-20

Contributors (2)

Douglas M. Bates

Contributor

David Firth

Contributor · added in 7.3-17

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-17

Bill Venables

Author, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-20

Translators (2)

Albrecht Gebhardt

Translator · added in 7.3-17

Kurt Hornik

Translator · added in 7.3-17

Listed in earlier versions (6)

Albrecht Gebhardt.

no longer listed · 7.3-0 to 7.3-8

following earlier work by Kurt Hornik

no longer listed · 7.3-0 to 7.3-8

S original by Venables & Ripley. R port by Brian Ripley

no longer listed · 7.3-0 to 7.3-16

Albrecht Gebhardt around 1998.

no longer listed · 7.3-9 to 7.3-16

following partial ports by Kurt Hornik

no longer listed · 7.3-9 to 7.3-16

Douglas M.

no longer listed · 7.3-27 to 7.3-66

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-05-08
Total releases: 78 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Bundled data: 166 KB / 87 files
Download size: 498 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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