R Observatory: Metrics for TauStar version 1.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

TauStar

1.1.9

Efficient Computation and Testing of the Bergsma-Dassios Sign Covariance

1packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

82.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Julian D. KarchFirst published 2015-10-097 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computes the t* statistic corresponding to the tau* population coefficient introduced by Bergsma and Dassios (2014) DOI:10.3150/13-BEJ514 and does so in O(n^2) time following the algorithm of Heller and Heller (2016) DOI:10.48550/arXiv.1605.08732 building off of the work of Weihs, Drton, and Leung (2016) DOI:10.1007/s00180-015-0639-x. Also allows for independence testing using the asymptotic distribution of t* as described by Nandy, Weihs, and Drton (2016) DOI:10.1214/16-EJS1166.

Install

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

install.packages("TauStar", 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("karchjd/TauStar")

Development version from karchjd/TauStar. 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-taustar

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-TauStar

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-TauStar

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.43

82.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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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

READMEYes · 346 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 23%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,585 · ~7/day · ~212/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ karchjd/taustar

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1Releases

59Commits

4Contributors

59 commits · Last activity 2026-03-07

Releases over time

2025-08-29 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/karchjd/taustar on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

moderncor

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Julian D. Karch

Maintainer

Authors (1)

Luca Weihs

Author

Contributors (1)

Emin Martinian

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Julian D.

no longer listed · 1.1.7 to 1.1.9

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-09
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 62 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("TauStar")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TauStar

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{TauStar,
  title  = {TauStar: Efficient Computation and Testing of the Bergsma-Dassios Sign
Covariance},
  author = {Karch, Julian D. and Martinian, Emin and Weihs, Luca},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.1.9},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.TauStar},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=TauStar}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryTauStar,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {TauStar} version 1.1.9},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/TauStar},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TauStar version 1.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/TauStar

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for TauStar version 1.1.9
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/TauStar
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/TauStar.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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