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R package discretetests by disohda — release notes from GitHub.

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Four years of releases land in four minutes as the changelog gets backfilled to GitHub

statistical-testingexact-testsnonparametricr-packagep-values
◆Current state
DiscreteTests computes exact p-values and their full support for discrete statistical tests, returning results as a class that carries the observations, the test statistic and the null distribution. All four visible releases were tagged within four minutes of each other on a single day in May 2026, in reverse order — 0.4.1 carries the earliest timestamp and 0.4.0 the latest — so this is a historical changelog being pushed to GitHub at once, not four days of work.
◆Where it's heading
Read by version rather than by timestamp, the package grew from binomial, Fisher, McNemar and Poisson tests into rank-based and resampling territory: Wilcoxon signed rank and rank sum, Mann-Whitney U, a conditional homogeneity test, then sign tests and a general permutation test with several built-in statistics. Alongside that the result class was extended to hold ragged observation lists and computational detail, the print output was rewritten on cli, and the old dot-separated function names were made defunct.
◆Prediction
The permutation test with pluggable statistics is the most open-ended addition here, and adding further built-in statistics to it is the cheapest way to extend the package from where it now stands.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Sign tests and a pluggable permutation test

    Sign tests for one- and two-sample paired designs and a permutation test for two independent samples with several built-in statistics. The permutation test is the more open-ended of the two, since its statistic is a parameter rather than fixed.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Input observation names carried through results

    get_pvalues() and print() on DiscreteTestResults now carry through the row or cell names of the input observations, with an option to suppress them. Small, but it removes the manual re-labelling step when tracking which result belongs to which observation.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney and homogeneity tests join the package

    The largest release of the set: Wilcoxon signed rank and rank sum tests, Mann-Whitney U, and a conditional two-sample homogeneity test. The result class is extended to store ragged observation lists plus test statistics and null distribution details, print output is rewritten on cli, and the old dot-separated function names become defunct.

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  4. 2mo ago

    macOS compilation fix

    A compilation fix for certain macOS configurations. Despite carrying the highest version number in this set, it holds the earliest timestamp — an artifact of the backfill order.

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