R Observatory: Metrics for distrTeach version 2.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distrTeach

2.9.2Package record

Extensions of Package 'distr' for Teaching Stochastics/Statistics in Secondary School

1packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter RuckdeschelCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Provides flexible examples of LLN and CLT for teaching purposes in secondary school.

Install

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

install.packages("distrTeach", 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-distrteach

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-distrTeach

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-distrTeach

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: 1.6 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 2.9.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Also includes 3 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,074 · ~10/day · ~315/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45230 days

1K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on104 r2u5 autocran106 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing distrTeach adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: distrEx 2.1 MB, distr 535 KB, sfsmisc 187 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.4methodsdistr distrEx

Imports (4)

startupmsggrDevicesgraphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tcltk

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

distrDoc

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Peter Ruckdeschel

Matthias Kohl

Author, Copyright holder

Eleonora Feist

Contributor · added in 2.6

contributed as student in the initial phase --2008

Anja Hueller

Contributor

contributed as student in the initial phase --2008

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Eleonara Feist

no longer listed · 2.0 to 2.5

Releases (18)

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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2008-09-12
Total releases: 18 / 18 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI · relicensed from GPL (version 2 or later) in 2.0.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 13 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("distrTeach")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distrTeach version 2.9.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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