MATES

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Multi-View Aggregated Two Sample Tests

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Overview

About

Maintained by Zexi CaiFirst published 2026-01-221 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements the Multi-view Aggregated Two-Sample (MATES) test, a powerful nonparametric method for testing equality of two multivariate distributions. The method constructs multiple graph-based statistics from various perspectives (views) including different distance metrics, graph types (nearest neighbor graphs, minimum spanning trees, and robust nearest neighbor graphs), and weighting schemes. These statistics are then aggregated through a quadratic form to achieve improved statistical power. The package provides both asymptotic closed-form inference and permutation-based testing procedures. For methodological details, see Cai and others (2026+) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2412.16684.

Install

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

install.packages("MATES", 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("ZexiCAI/MATES")

Development version from ZexiCAI/MATES. 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-mates

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-MATES

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-MATES

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zexicai/mates

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Last activity 2025-11-21

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Dependencies

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4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

Rcpp ade4MASSmagrittr

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Rcpp

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People & History

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Zexi Cai

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Contributors (3)

Wenbo Fei

Author, Contributor

Mingshuo Liu

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Doudou Zhou

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-22
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 16 KB
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