sfsmisc

1.1-24

Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich

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272.1Kdownloads / year

12.7%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Martin MaechlerFirst published 2004-02-0675 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Useful utilities ['goodies'] from Seminar fuer Statistik ETH Zurich, some of which were ported from S-plus in the 1990s. For graphics, have pretty (Log-scale) axes eaxis(), an enhanced Tukey-Anscombe plot, combining histogram and boxplot, 2d-residual plots, a 'tachoPlot()', pretty arrows, etc. For robustness, have a robust F test and robust range(). For system support, notably on Linux, provides 'Sys.*()' functions with more access to system and CPU information. Finally, miscellaneous utilities such as simple efficient prime numbers, integer codes, Duplicated(), toLatex.numeric() and is.whole().

Install

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

install.packages("sfsmisc", 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("mmaechler/sfsmisc")

Development version from mmaechler/sfsmisc. 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-sfsmisc

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-sfsmisc

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-sfsmisc

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

12.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 78%
References docs: 16%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mmaechler/sfsmisc

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License GPL-2.0 · 819 commits · Last activity 2026-06-12

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

grDevicesutilsstatstools

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none

Suggests (10)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People (24)

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Martin Maechler

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Contributors (23)

Ben Bolker

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Christoph Buser

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Vincent Carey

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Sandrine Dudoit

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Isabelle Flückiger

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Jane Fridlyand

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Charles Geyer

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Lorenz Gygax

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Kjetil Halvorsen

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Alain Hauser

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Frédéric Ibanez

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Christian Keller

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Markus Keller

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Henrik Aa. Nielsen

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Jens Oehlschlägel

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Tony Plate

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Andreas Ruckstuhl

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Caterina Savi

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Greg Snow

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Werner Stahel

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Bill Venables

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Marcel Wolbers

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Martin Maechler et al.

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-02-06
Total releases: 75 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 185 KB
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