R Observatory: Metrics for dissimilarities version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dissimilarities

0.3.0

Creating, Manipulating, and Subsetting "dist" Objects

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

89.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Minh Long NguyenFirst published 2025-05-054 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Efficiently creates, manipulates, and subsets "dist" objects, commonly used in cluster analysis. Designed to minimise unnecessary conversions and computational overhead while enabling seamless interaction with distance matrices.

Install

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

install.packages("dissimilarities", 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("edelweiss611428/dissimilarities")

Development version from edelweiss611428/dissimilarities. 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-dissimilarities

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-dissimilarities

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-dissimilarities

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.93

89.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 182 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,131 · ~7/day · ~201/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ edelweiss611428/dissimilarities

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License CC-BY-4.0 · 132 commits · Last activity 2025-07-20

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/edelweiss611428/dissimilarities on 2026-08-16.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (4)

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People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Minh Long Nguyen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Minh Long Nguyen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
2025-06-28 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.1
2025-05-18 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-05-17 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-05
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Download size: 16 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models

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Format

Nguyen, M. L. (2025). dissimilarities: Creating, Manipulating, and Subsetting "dist" Objects (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dissimilarities

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dissimilarities version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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