bigsimr

0.12.0

Fast Generation of High-Dimensional Random Vectors

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

3.6%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alex KnudsonFirst published 2021-06-243 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simulate multivariate data with arbitrary marginal distributions. 'bigsimr' is a package for simulating high-dimensional multivariate data with a target correlation and arbitrary marginal distributions via Gaussian copula. It utilizes the Julia package 'Bigsimr.jl' for its core routines.

Install

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

install.packages("bigsimr", 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("SchisslerGroup/r-bigsimr")

Development version from SchisslerGroup/r-bigsimr. 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-bigsimr

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-bigsimr

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: 47 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

3.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 275 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,056 · ~9/day · ~269/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ schisslergroup/r-bigsimr

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

212Commits

8Contributors

212 commits · Last activity 2024-02-23

Stars over time

2020-12-21 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/schisslergroup/r-bigsimr on 2026-08-03.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

JuliaCall

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Alex Knudson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Alex Knudson

Author, Maintainer

Grant Schissler

Author

Contributors (1)

Duc Tran

Contributor · added in 0.12.0

Package Timeline

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

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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
0.12.0Latest
2024-02-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.11.2
2021-09-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-09-12
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-08
policy violation On file system usage, to ~/.local/share and does not clean up
0.11.1
2021-06-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-24
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 14 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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