truncnorm

1.0-9

Truncated Normal Distribution

115packages depend

558.3Kdownloads / year

91.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Olaf MersmannFirst published 2008-12-127 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Density, probability, quantile and random number generation functions for the truncated normal distribution.

Install

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

install.packages("truncnorm", 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("olafmersmann/truncnorm")

Development version from olafmersmann/truncnorm. 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-truncnorm

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-truncnorm

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ olafmersmann/truncnorm

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60 commits · Last activity 2023-06-29 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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Reverse dependencies

115direct

146indirect

and 67 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Olaf Mersmann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Olaf Mersmann

Author, Maintainer

Björn Bornkamp

Author · added in 1.0-4

Detlef Steuer

Author

Heike Trautmann

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-12-12
Total releases: 7 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB
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