svMisc

1.4.3

Miscellaneous Functions for 'SciViews::R'

9packages depend

18.7Kdownloads / year

2.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philippe GrosjeanFirst published 2009-01-2317 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions required for the 'SciViews::R' dialect or for general use: manage a temporary environment attached to the search path, define synonyms for R functions using aka(), test if 'Aqua', 'Mac', 'Win' ... Show progress bar, etc.

Install

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

install.packages("svMisc", 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("SciViews/svMisc")

Development version from SciViews/svMisc. 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-svmisc

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-svMisc

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-svMisc

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

2.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 77%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sciviews/svmisc

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128 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (6)

climethodsrlangstatstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Philippe Grosjean

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Philippe Grosjean

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Kamil Barton

Contributor · added in 0.9-65

Romain Francois

Contributor · added in 0.9-65

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Romain Francois & Kamil Barton

no longer listed · 0.9-46 to 0.9-63

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-01-23
Total releases: 17 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 255 KB
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