R Observatory: Metrics for compare version 0.2-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

compare

0.2-6

Comparing Objects for Differences

8packages depend

20Kdownloads / year

73.7%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul MurrellFirst published 2008-06-168 releasesCRAN 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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.40

73.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

20K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,396 · ~55/day · ~1.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70630 days

3.1K90 days

20K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on16.7K r2u28 autocran1.2K conda_forge62 c2d4u

Dependencies

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0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul Murrell

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.2-6

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-16
Total releases: 8 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 399 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for compare version 0.2-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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