spuRs

2.0.3

Functions and Datasets for "Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R"

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew RobinsonFirst published 2009-03-1310 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides functions and datasets from Jones, O.D., R. Maillardet, and A.P. Robinson. 2014. An Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation, Using R. 2nd Ed. Chapman And Hall/CRC.

Install

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

install.packages("spuRs", 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-spurs

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-spuRs

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

Health

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Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Dependencies

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Depends (3)

R >= 2.10MASSlattice

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Robinson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Andrew Robinson

Author, Maintainer

Olga Borovkova

Author

Steven Carnie

Author · added in 2.0.3

Owen Jones

Author

Robert Maillardet

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

and Steven Carnie

no longer listed · 1.0 to 2.0.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-03-13
Total releases: 10 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 136 KB
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