R Observatory: Metrics for ExtDist version 0.7-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ExtDist

0.7-4Package record

Extending the Range of Functions for Probability Distributions

4packages dependsuggested by 1

6.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Oleksii NikolaienkoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A consistent, unified and extensible framework for estimation of parameters for probability distributions, including parameter estimation procedures that allow for weighted samples; the current set of distributions included are: the standard beta, The four-parameter beta, Burr, gamma, Gumbel, Johnson SB and SU, Laplace, logistic, normal, symmetric truncated normal, truncated normal, symmetric-reflected truncated beta, standard symmetric-reflected truncated beta, triangular, uniform, and Weibull distributions; decision criteria and selections based on these decision criteria.

Install

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

install.packages("ExtDist", 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("oleksii-nikolaienko/ExtDist")

Development version from oleksii-nikolaienko/ExtDist. 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-extdist

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-ExtDist

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-ExtDist

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7-4

READMEYes · 141 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 25includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%21 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 66%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 64%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,732 · ~19/day · ~563/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69030 days

1.7K90 days

6.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on158 r2u8 autocran1.3K conda_forge82 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

oleksii-nikolaienko/extdist ↗Account: oleksii-nikolaienko

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

50Commits

3Commit identities

50 commits · Last activity 2025-09-17

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 134
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-01-16 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/oleksii-nikolaienko/extdist on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and macOS, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ExtDist adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 4.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: optimx 2.2 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, pracma 389 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

numDeriv optimx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

ggplot2 knitr PerformanceAnalyticsstatsSuppDists truncdist VGAM xtablegraphicsutilsrmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BayesPower tidysynthesis noisemodel kko

Suggests, most downloaded first

fitteR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Oleksii Nikolaienko

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 0.7-3

A. Jonathan R. Godfrey

Author

Kondaswamy Govindaraju

Author

Sarah Pirikahu

Author · added in 0.6-3

Haizhen Wu

Author

Maintainer since 0.6-4 (2020), previously A. Jonathan R. Godfrey (0.6-3) and Haizhen Wu (0.3 to 0.3.7)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Godfrey

no longer listed · 0.7-3 to 0.7-4

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7-4Latest
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2025-09-23 · current release · diff ↗
0.7-3
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2025-06-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7-2
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2023-08-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7-1
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2023-01-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-12-07
0.6-4
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2020-12-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-01-25
check errors were not corrected despite reminders Failed its checks without long doubles

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.6-3
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2015-05-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
AIC.eDist, AICc.eDist, BIC.eDist, DistSelCriteriaValues, MDL.eDist, logLik.eDist, print.eDist, vcov.eDist

added 11 exports
BIC, DistSelCriteria, dExp, dJohnsonSB_ab, eExp, iExp, lExp, pExp, qExp, rExp, sExp
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2015-03-03
misuse of '\donttest' was not corrected
0.3.7
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2014-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
dBeta.ab, eBeta.ab, lBeta.ab, pBeta.ab, qBeta.ab, rBeta.ab, sBeta.ab

added 91 exports
AICc, AICc.eDist, DistSelCriteriaValues, MDL, MDL.eDist, bestDist, dBeta_ab, dBurr, dGamma, dGumbel, dJohnsonSB, dJohnsonSU, dLogistic, dNormal_sym_trunc_ab, dNormal_trunc_ab, dSRTB_ab, dSSRTB, dTriangular, dUniform, dWeibull, eBeta_ab, eBurr, eGamma, eGumbel, eJohnsonSB, eJohnsonSU, eLogistic, eNormal_sym_trunc_ab, eNormal_trunc_ab, eSRTB_ab and 61 more
0.3.3
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2014-07-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
ebeta, enorm, ibeta, inorm, sbeta, snorm
0.3
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2014-05-17
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-17
Total releases: 9 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 357 KB

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citation("ExtDist")

Format

Nikolaienko, O., Godfrey, A. J. R., Govindaraju, K., Pirikahu, S., & Wu, H. (2025). ExtDist: Extending the Range of Functions for Probability Distributions (Version 0.7-4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ExtDist

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ExtDist version 0.7-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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