R Observatory: Metrics for distrEx version 2.9.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distrEx

2.9.6Package record

Extensions of Package 'distr'

10packages dependsuggested by 4

78.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthias KohlCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Extends package 'distr' by functionals, distances, and conditional distributions.

Install

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

install.packages("distrEx", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-distrex

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-distrEx

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-distrEx

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: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.9.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 39 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%35 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 85%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

78.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,043 · ~214/day · ~6.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.8K30 days

8.8K90 days

78.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on584 r2u223 autocran4.4K conda_forge190 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing distrEx adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 733 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: distr 535 KB, sfsmisc 187 KB, startupmsg 11 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.4methodsdistr

Imports (3)

startupmsgutilsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tcltk

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

6indirect

Depends 6 · Imports 4

Suggested by 4

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

distrMod RandVar RobAStBase ROptEst RcmdrPlugin.TeachStat GJRM distrDoc distrTeach distrEllipse RobExtremes

Suggests, most downloaded first

distr distrTEst distrSim distrRmetrics

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Matthias Kohl

Peter Ruckdeschel

Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.4-3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Nataliya Horbenko

no longer listed · 2.4 to 2.5

Releases (27)

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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
2.8.0
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2019-03-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
.qtlIntegrate, .filterEargs, .filterFunargs, print.DiagnosticClass, showDiagnostic, getDiagnostic, .nmsToGather, .showallNamesDiagnosticList, .reorganizeDiagnosticList
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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2.6.1
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
EmpiricalMVDistribution
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2013-02-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
Gumbel, Pareto, GPareto, GEV, EULERMASCHERONICONSTANT, APERYCONSTANT

added 1 export
distrExMOVED
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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GPareto
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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2009-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
Pareto, EULERMASCHERONICONSTANT, APERYCONSTANT, .getIntbounds
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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2008-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
illustrateLLN, illustrateCLT, illustrateCLT.tcl

added 1 export
distrExoptions
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
1.9
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2007-07-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
DistrList, UnivarDistrList, DiscreteDistribution, EuclideanSpace, Reals, Naturals, GLIntegrateTruncQuantile, GLIntegrateOrder, ElowerTruncQuantile, EupperTruncQuantile, ErelativeTolerance, m1dfLowerTruncQuantile, m1dfRelativeTolerance, m2dfLowerTruncQuantile, m2dfRelativeTolerance

added 5 exports
illustrateLLN, illustrateCLT, illustrateCLT.tcl, getdistrExOption, distrExMASK
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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make01, PrognCondDistribution, PrognCondition
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24
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0-4.1
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2005-10-21
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06

Package metadata

First published: 2005-10-21
Total releases: 27 / 21 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI · relicensed from GPL (version 2 or later) in 2.0.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 2.1 MB

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citation("distrEx")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distrEx version 2.9.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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