robustbase

0.99-7

Basic Robust Statistics

185packages depend

1.2Mdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin MaechlerFirst published 2006-02-1066 releasesCRAN page ↗

"Essential" Robust Statistics. Tools allowing to analyze data with robust methods. This includes regression methodology including model selections and multivariate statistics where we strive to cover the book "Robust Statistics, Theory and Methods" by 'Maronna, Martin and Yohai'; Wiley 2006.

Install

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

install.packages("robustbase", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-robustbase

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-robustbase

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-robustbase

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.88

75.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-23
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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 57%

Downloads

1.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #365 · ~3.4K/day · ~102.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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276.7K90 days

1.2M1 year

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Repository

Repository ↗ scm/viewvc.php

Repository practices

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Repository r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

statsgraphicsutilsmethodsDEoptimR

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (19)

gridMASSlatticebootclusterMatrixrobust fit.models MPV xtable ggplot2 GGally RColorBrewer reshape2 sfsmisc catdata doParallel foreach skewt

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

185direct

242indirect

and 138 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Martin Maechler

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1-4

Authors (6)

Martin Maechler

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1-4

Eduardo L. T. Conceicao

Author · added in 0.92-7

Manuel Koller

Author · added in 0.7-3

Andreas Ruckstuhl

Author

Matias Salibian-Barrera

Author · added in 0.1-4

Valentin Todorov

Author · added in 0.92-7

Contributors (4)

Maria Anna di Palma

Contributor · added in 0.92-7

Christophe Croux

Contributor

Peter Rousseeuw

Contributor · added in 0.92-7

Tobias Verbeke

Contributor, Funder · added in 0.4-2

Funders (1)

Tobias Verbeke

Contributor, Funder · added in 0.4-2

Listed in earlier versions (8)

utilities: by Martin Maechler

no longer listed · 0.1-2

notably Peter Rousseeuw

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 0.92-6

see file 'Copyrights'; Valentin Todorov

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 0.92-6

Matias Salibian-Barrera. adaptions

no longer listed · 0.1-2

Original code by many authors

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 0.92-6

help files

no longer listed · 0.1-2

testing

no longer listed · 0.1-2

Eduardo L. T.

no longer listed · 0.92-8 to 0.99-7

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-02-10
Total releases: 66 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 225 KB / 41 files
Download size: 2.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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