MESS

0.6.0

Miscellaneous Esoteric Statistical Scripts

6packages depend

64.3Kdownloads / year

4.9%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Claus Thorn EkstrømFirst published 2012-06-2017 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A mixed collection of useful and semi-useful diverse statistical functions, some of which may even be referenced in The R Primer book. See Ekstrøm, C. T. (2016). The R Primer. 2nd edition. Chapman & Hall.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("MESS", 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("ekstroem/MESS")

Development version from ekstroem/MESS. 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-mess

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 8.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

4.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 21%

Downloads

64.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,709 · ~176/day · ~5.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ekstroem/mess

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9Forks

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276Commits

3Contributors

statistical-methodsbiostatisticsstatistical-analysisstatistical-modelspower-analysis

276 commits · Last activity 2025-09-11

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/ekstroem/mess on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (13)

MASSMatrixRcpp clipr geepack geeM ggplot2 ggformula glmnet kinship2methodsmvtnormparallel

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel

Suggests (5)

knitr lme4 magrittr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

5indirect

TPEA cp4p cgmanalysis citationchaser geeasy ssev

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4-15

Authors (1)

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4-15

Contributors (1)

Niels Aske Lundtorp Olsen

Contributor · added in 0.5.12

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Claus Ekstrom

no longer listed · 0.1-1 to 0.3-2

Claus Ekstrøm

no longer listed · 0.4-3

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-20
Total releases: 17 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 18 files
Download size: 2.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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