R Observatory: Metrics for compare version 0.2-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

compare

0.2-6Package record

Comparing Objects for Differences

5packages dependsuggested by 3

16.3Kdownloads / year

73.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul MurrellCRAN page ↗

Functions to compare a model object to a comparison object. If the objects are not identical, the functions can be instructed to explore various modifications of the objects (e.g., sorting rows, dropping names) to see if the modified versions are identical.

Changes in 0.2-6

Fixed bug when allowing rounding (when comparing two numerics) so that rounding will occur regardless of whether comparison object needs rounding (because model might benefit from rounding anyway). Reported by Thomas Guillet (with patch!).

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("compare", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-compare

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-compare

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-compare

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

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Paul Murrell <p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Paul",
                    family = "Murrell",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-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 0.2-6

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 0.2-6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

16.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,463 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.1K90 days

16.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on21K r2u9 autocran1.1K conda_forge123 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing compare adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DynNom specmine acebayes HyRiM relatable

Suggests, most downloaded first

emuR wrassp processcheckR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Paul Murrell

Maintainer since 0.1 (2008)

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-16
Total releases: 8 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 399 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for compare version 0.2-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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