R Observatory: Metrics for Distributacalcul version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Distributacalcul

0.4.0Package record

Probability Distribution Functions

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

0.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alec James van RasselCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: Laboratoire Act & Risk, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and 1 more

Calculates expected values, variance, different moments (kth moment, truncated mean), stop-loss, mean excess loss, Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Tail Value-at-Risk (TVaR) as well as some density and cumulative (survival) functions of continuous, discrete and compound distributions. This package also includes a visual 'Shiny' component to enable students to visualize distributions and understand the impact of their parameters. This package is intended to expand the 'stats' package so as to enable students to develop an intuition for probability.

Changes in 0.4.0

Bug fixes

Removed vignette and shiny components to republish to CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Distributacalcul", 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("alec42/Distributacalcul_Package")

Development version from alec42/Distributacalcul_Package. 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-distributacalcul

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-Distributacalcul

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-Distributacalcul

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘dplyr’ ‘rlang’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 1,109 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 32 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%31 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 78%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,396 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33930 days

85690 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on93 r2u3 autocran49 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

alec42/distributacalcul_package ↗Account: alec42

2Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

232Commits

3Commit identities

232 commits · Last activity 2024-01-12

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 130
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 420

Stars over time

2021-10-01 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alec42/distributacalcul_package on 2026-10-18.

Governance and community (1)

PR template

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-01-12

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Distributacalcul adds 16 packages (10 with compiled code, 5.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statmodstatsdplyr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

learnr knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Alec James van Rassel

Gabriel Crépeault-Cauchon

Author, ccp

Laboratoire Act & Risk

Funder, sht

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Funder

École d'actuariat de l'Université Laval

Funder, his, uvp

Hélène Cossette

tch, sad

Marc-André Devost

ccp

Étienne Marceau

tch, sad

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-10
0.4.0Latest
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2024-01-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 182 exports
TVatRBeta, TVatRBinom, TVatRCompBinom, TVatRCompNBinom, TVatRCompPois, TVatRErlang, TVatRExp, TVatRGamma, TVatRIG, TVatRLlogis, TVatRLnorm, TVatRNorm, TVatRPareto, TVatRPois, TVatRUnif, TVatRWeibull, VatRBeta, VatRBinom, VatRCompBinom, VatRCompNBinom, VatRCompPois, VatRErlang, VatRExp, VatRGamma, VatRIG, VatRLlogis, VatRLnorm, VatRLogarithmic, VatRNorm, VatRPareto and 152 more
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-21
check problems were not corrected in time
0.3.0
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2020-09-11 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2020-06-13 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-06-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-09
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 58 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("Distributacalcul")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Distributacalcul version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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