PMA

1.2-4

Penalized Multivariate Analysis

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27.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Balasubramanian NarasimhanFirst published 2009-02-1218 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Performs Penalized Multivariate Analysis: a penalized matrix decomposition, sparse principal components analysis, and sparse canonical correlation analysis, described in Witten, Tibshirani and Hastie (2009) doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxp008 and Witten and Tibshirani (2009) Extensions of sparse canonical correlation analysis, with applications to genomic data doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1470.

Install

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

install.packages("PMA", 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("bnaras/PMA")

Development version from bnaras/PMA. 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-pma

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-PMA

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 13 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

27.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,822 · ~75/day · ~2.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bnaras/pma

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1Contributors

19 commits · Last activity 2024-09-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

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HMC prinvars ccar3 conos epca

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.8

Authors (4)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.8

Sam Gross

Author · added in 1.0.4

Rob Tibshirani

Author

Daniela Witten

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-02-12
Total releases: 18 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 76 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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