R Observatory: Metrics for distributions3 version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distributions3

0.3.0

Probability Distributions as S3 Objects

6packages depend

70.6Kdownloads / year

86.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisFirst published 2019-09-038 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools to create and manipulate probability distributions using S3. Generics pdf(), cdf(), quantile(), and random() provide replacements for base R's d/p/q/r style functions. Functions and arguments have been named carefully to minimize confusion for students in intro stats courses. The documentation for each distribution contains detailed mathematical notes.

Install

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

install.packages("distributions3", 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("zeileis/distributions3")

Development version from zeileis/distributions3. 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-distributions3

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-distributions3

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-distributions3

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

86.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-06-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-16
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 354 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

70.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,755 · ~194/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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4.1K30 days

13K90 days

70.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zeileis/distributions3

107Stars

17Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

381Commits

17Contributors

381 commits · Last activity 2026-08-20

Stars over time

2025-07-08 · 1032026-07-22 · 107

Repository practices

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6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zeileis/distributions3 on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (1)

rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

cowplot crch ggplot2 knitr numDeriv PoissonBinomial revdbayes rmarkdown scoringRules testthat tibble vctrs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

bamlss imaginator betareg crch gamlss gamlss.dist

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (7)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Alex Hayes

Author

Daniel Jordan

Author

Moritz N. Lang

Author · added in 0.2.0

Ralph Moller-Trane

Author

Paul Northrop

Author · added in 0.1.2

Reto Stauffer

Author · added in 0.3.0

Contributors (3)

Alessandro Gasparini

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Emil Hvitfeldt

Contributor

Bruna Wundervald

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lang

no longer listed · 0.2.4 to 0.3.0

Package Timeline

8 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.3.0Latest
2026-08-20 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.4
2026-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.3
2025-09-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.2
2024-09-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.1
2022-09-07 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
2022-01-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
2019-09-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-09-03
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 1.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 462 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Zeileis, A., Gasparini, A., Hayes, A., Hvitfeldt, E., Jordan, D., Lang, M. N., Moller-Trane, R., Northrop, P., Stauffer, R., & Wundervald, B. (2026). distributions3: Probability Distributions as S3 Objects (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.distributions3

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distributions3 version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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