R Observatory: Metrics for distcrete version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distcrete

1.0.3

Discrete Distribution Approximations

5packages depend

18.5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Steph LockeFirst published 2017-11-231 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.45

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 169 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

18.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,184 · ~51/day · ~1.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ reconhub/distcrete

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0Open PRs

1Releases

46Commits

5Contributors

46 commits · Last activity 2017-12-06

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Makefile

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Reverse dependencies

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earlyR epiparameter epitrix cfr projections

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Steph Locke

Maintainer

Authors (3)

Anne Cori

Author

Rich FitzJohn

Author

Thibaut Jombart

Author

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-23
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 43 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distcrete version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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