R Observatory: Metrics for distances version 0.1.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distances

0.1.13Package record

Tools for Distance Metrics

7packages depend

58.4Kdownloads / year

99.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Fredrik SavjeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for constructing, manipulating and using distance metrics.

Changes in 0.1.13

Fix calls to testthat package.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.13

READMEYes · 68 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.13Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

58.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,819 · ~160/day · ~4.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.5K30 days

11.2K90 days

58.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on756 r2u1 autocran5.4K conda_forge90 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fsavje/distances ↗Account: fsavje

18Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

103Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 103 commits · Last activity 2025-11-24

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 53

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 172026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fsavje/distances on 2026-10-22.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (1)

stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

1indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

quickmatch scclust SpatialBSS colorrepel quickblock manydist GeomArchetypal

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Fredrik Savje

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (16)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-09-18
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2019-09-01
deprecated use of C++98 was not corrected in time
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-12-13 · diff ↗
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2018-08-15 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-07-20
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2018-07-10
maintainer address bounced
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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

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

Cite

Cite this package

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distances version 0.1.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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