R Observatory: Metrics for distances version 0.1.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distances

0.1.13

Tools for Distance Metrics

7packages depend

70.7Kdownloads / year

99.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Fredrik SavjeFirst published 2017-03-0516 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools for constructing, manipulating and using distance metrics.

Install

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

install.packages("distances", 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("fsavje/distances")

Development version from fsavje/distances. 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-distances

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-distances

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-distances

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.07

99.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 68 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

70.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,832 · ~194/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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70.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fsavje/distances

18Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

103Commits

1Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 103 commits · Last activity 2025-11-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-01-31 · 162026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fsavje/distances on 2026-08-16.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

1indirect

quickblock quickmatch scclust GeomArchetypal SpatialBSS colorrepel manydist

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Fredrik Savje

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Fredrik Savje

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

16 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
0.1.13Latest
2025-11-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.12
2025-04-01 · diff ↗
0.1.11
2024-08-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.10
2023-11-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.9
2023-01-27 · 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
0.1.8
2019-09-22 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-09-18
0.1.7.2
2019-09-01 · diff ↗
0.1.7.1
2019-09-01 · diff ↗

Show 15 earlier events

orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2019-09-01
deprecated use of C++98 was not corrected in time
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.7
2019-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2018-12-13 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2018-12-12 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2018-08-15 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2018-07-20 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-07-20
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2018-07-10
maintainer address bounced
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.2
2017-05-23 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-05-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
2017-03-05
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-05
Total releases: 16 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 84 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("distances")

Format

Savje, F. (2025). distances: Tools for Distance Metrics (Version 0.1.13) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.distances

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distances version 0.1.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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