R Observatory: Metrics for bigdist version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2024-04-20. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.1.4, its last release before removal.

bigdist

0.1.4

Store Distance Matrices on Disk

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Komala Sheshachala Srikanth1 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides utilities to compute, store and access distance matrices on disk as file-backed matrices provided by the 'bigstatsr' package. File-backed distance matrices are stored as a symmetric matrix to facilitate out-of-memory operations on file-backed matrix while the in-memory 'dist' object stores only the lower diagonal elements. 'disto' provides an unified interface to work with in-memory and disk-based distance matrices.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/bigdist/bigdist_0.1.4.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "bigdist_0.1.4.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.4) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("talegari/bigdist")

Development version from talegari/bigdist. 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-bigdist

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-bigdist

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (5)

assertthat bigstatsr proxy (>= 0.4.21)furrrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

statsspelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Komala Sheshachala Srikanth

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Komala Sheshachala Srikanth

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Florian Privé

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.4
2019-03-16
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bigdist")

Format

Srikanth, K. S., & Privé, F. (n.d.). bigdist: Store Distance Matrices on Disk (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bigdist

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Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bigdist version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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