R Observatory: Metrics for RcppDist version 0.1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppDist

0.1.1.1Package record

'Rcpp' Integration of Additional Probability Distributions

24packages depend

33.9Kdownloads / year

99.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by JB Duck-MayrCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The 'Rcpp' package provides a C++ library to make it easier to use C++ with R. R and 'Rcpp' provide functions for a variety of statistical distributions. Several R packages make functions available to R for additional statistical distributions. However, to access these functions from C++ code, a costly call to the R functions must be made. 'RcppDist' provides a header-only C++ library with functions for additional statistical distributions that can be called from C++ when writing code using 'Rcpp' or 'RcppArmadillo'. Functions are available that return a 'NumericVector' as well as doubles, and for multivariate or matrix distributions, 'Armadillo' vectors and matrices. 'RcppDist' provides functions for the following distributions: the four parameter beta distribution; the location- scale t distribution; the truncated normal distribution; the truncated t distribution; a truncated location-scale t distribution; the triangle distribution; the multivariate normal distribution*; the multivariate t distribution*; the Wishart distribution*; and the inverse Wishart distribution*. Distributions marked with an asterisk rely on 'RcppArmadillo'.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppDist", 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("duckmayr/RcppDist")

Development version from duckmayr/RcppDist. 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-rcppdist

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-RcppDist

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-RcppDist

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1.1

READMEYes · 259 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

RcppDist Introduction PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

33.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,377 · ~93/day · ~2.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.3K30 days

6.9K90 days

33.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1K r2u7 autocran4.2K conda_forge100 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

duckmayr/rcppdist ↗Account: duckmayr

7Stars

2Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

76Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 76 commits · Last activity 2019-05-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 20
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-19 · 62026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/duckmayr/rcppdist on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RcppDist adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

24direct

8indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 3 · LinkingTo 24

Show all 24 dependentsHide all 24 dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BGGM maotai Rdimtools simmr BNPmix CDatanet BayesPPDSurv bama equateMultiple SBMTrees PSPI IRTM cosimmr bggum RSTr hlt samplr ieTest MR.RGM roboBayes qbld mvnimpute pumBayes ProfileGLMM

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

JB Duck-Mayr

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2018)

Releases (2)

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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
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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
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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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2018-10-28
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-28
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 140 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RcppDist")

Format

Duck-Mayr, J. (2025). RcppDist: 'Rcpp' Integration of Additional Probability Distributions (Version 0.1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppDist

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 RcppDist version 0.1.1.1 [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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