correlation

0.8.8

Methods for Correlation Analysis

16packages depend

332.3Kdownloads / year

72.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brenton M. WiernikFirst published 2020-03-1619 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Lightweight package for computing different kinds of correlations, such as partial correlations, Bayesian correlations, multilevel correlations, polychoric correlations, biweight correlations, distance correlations and more. Part of the 'easystats' ecosystem. References: Makowski et al. (2020) doi:10.21105/joss.02306.

Install

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

install.packages("correlation", 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("easystats/correlation")

Development version from easystats/correlation. 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-correlation

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-correlation

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-correlation

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

72.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 669 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 56%
References docs: 16%

Downloads

332.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #744 · ~910/day · ~27.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ easystats/correlation

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61Open issues

10Open PRs

16Releases

823Commits

12Contributors

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (6)

bayestestRdatasetsdatawizard insight parametersstats

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none

Suggests (23)

BayesFactor energy ggplot2 ggraph gt Hmisc knitr lme4MASSmbend polycor poorman ppcor psych rmarkdown rmcorr rstanarm see testthat tidygraph wdm WRS2 openxlsx2

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Brenton M. Wiernik

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.7.0

Authors (6)

Brenton M. Wiernik

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.7.0

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar

Author

Author

Author, inv

Author

Author · added in 0.8.5

Reviewers (2)

Maximilian M. Rabe

Reviewer · added in 0.7.0

Mark White

Reviewer · added in 0.7.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-16
Total releases: 19 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 341 KB
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