MBC

0.10-8

Multivariate Bias Correction of Climate Model Outputs

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Overview

About

Maintained by Alex J. CannonFirst published 2016-10-139 releasesCRAN page ↗

Calibrate and apply multivariate bias correction algorithms for climate model simulations of multiple climate variables. Three methods described by Cannon (2016) doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0679.1 and Cannon (2018) doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3580-6 are implemented -- (i) MBC Pearson correlation (MBCp), (ii) MBC rank correlation (MBCr), and (iii) MBC N-dimensional PDF transform (MBCn) -- as is the Rank Resampling for Distributions and Dependences (R2D2) method. An additional multivariate rescaling method based on the linear Monge-Kantorovich map for Gaussian optimal transport of dependence structure is also included.

Install

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

install.packages("MBC", 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-mbc

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-MBC

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-MBC

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-arm64

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None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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README

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10Matrixenergy FNN

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

Rd 915 (54%)R 792 (46%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 13.0 median / 23 max
Documented parameters: 95%

Test coverage

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Functions

9 9 exported

Complexity

11.9 avg / 23 max

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9 nodes / 8 edges

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People & History

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Maintainer (1)

Alex J. Cannon

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Authors (1)

Alex J. Cannon

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.10-8Latest
2026-06-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-02-05 · diff ↗
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2017-12-05 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.10-2
2017-03-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-13
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 472 KB / 1 file
Download size: 487 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet