R Observatory: Metrics for diffeR version 0.0-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

diffeR

0.0-8Package record

Metrics of Difference for Comparing Pairs of Maps or Pairs of Variables

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ali SantacruzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Metrics of difference for comparing pairs of variables or pairs of maps representing real or categorical variables at original and multiple resolutions.

Install

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

install.packages("diffeR", 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("amsantac/diffeR")

Development version from amsantac/diffeR. 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-differ

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-diffeR

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-diffeR

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: ‘Ali Santacruz <amsantac@unal.edu.co>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Robert", "Gilmore"),
                      family = "Pontius Jr.",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "rpontius@clarku.edu"),
               person(given = "Ali",
                      family = "Santacruz",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "amsantac@unal.edu.co"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-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 0.0-8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%12 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 64%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,019 · ~9/day · ~287/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34030 days

88090 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

amsantac/differ ↗Account: amsantac

10Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

27Commits

1Commit identities

27 commits · Last activity 2023-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-07 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/amsantac/differ on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing diffeR adds 33 packages (19 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.14.0terramethodsggplot2

Imports (6)

graphicsgrDevicestidyr tidyselect rlang raster

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr.

Ali Santacruz

Maintainer since at least 0.0-7 (2023)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.0-8Latest
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2023-08-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-02-07 · 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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0-6
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2019-01-22 · diff ↗
0.0-5
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2018-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 19 exports
composite, crosstabm, differenceMR, diffTablej, exchangeDij, exchangeDj, MAD, MADscatterplot, memberships, overallAllocD, overallComponentsPlot, overallDiff, overallDiffCatj, overallExchangeD, overallQtyD, overallShiftD, quantityDj, sample2pop, shiftDj

added 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0-4
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2015-12-29 · diff ↗

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0.0-3
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2015-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.0-2
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2015-02-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
overallComponentsPlot, sample2pop
0.0-1
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2014-11-29
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-11-29
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 311 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("diffeR")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for diffeR version 0.0-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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