R Observatory: Metrics for distcrete version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distcrete

1.0.3Package record

Discrete Distribution Approximations

2packages dependsuggested by 2

14.5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steph LockeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates discretised versions of continuous distribution functions by mapping continuous values to an underlying discrete grid, based on a (uniform) frequency of discretisation, a valid discretisation point, and an integration range. For a review of discretisation methods, see Chakraborty (2015) doi:10.1186/s40488-015-0028-6.

Changes in 1.0.3

New to CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("distcrete", 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("reconhub/distcrete")

Development version from reconhub/distcrete. 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-distcrete

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-distcrete

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-distcrete

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: 58 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 169 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

distcrete HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

14.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,736 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

78930 days

2.6K90 days

14.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on115 r2u4 autocran133 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

reconhub/distcrete ↗Organization: reconhub

5Stars

1Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

46Commits

5Commit identities

46 commits · Last activity 2017-11-29

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 173
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-04-01 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/reconhub/distcrete on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-11-22

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

epitrix epiparameter

Suggests, most downloaded first

projections cfr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Steph Locke

Maintainer since 1.0.3 (2017)

Anne Cori

Author

Rich FitzJohn

Author

Thibaut Jombart

Author

Releases (1)

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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
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.3Latest
record
2017-11-23 · current release
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-23
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 43 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("distcrete")

Format

Locke, S., Cori, A., FitzJohn, R., & Jombart, T. (2017). distcrete: Discrete Distribution Approximations (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.distcrete

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distcrete version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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