R Observatory: Metrics for distspec version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

distspec

0.1.0

Probability Distributions with Certain or Uncertain Parameters

0packages depend

163downloads / year

86.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian FunkFirst published 2026-08-071 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Represents probability distributions with fixed or potentially uncertain parameters, with tools to discretise, convolve, sample from and summarise them.

Install

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

install.packages("distspec", 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("epiforecasts/distspec")

Development version from epiforecasts/distspec. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-distspec

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-distspec

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.51

86.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-08
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 344 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

163

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,696 · ~0/day · ~14/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16330 days

16390 days

1631 year

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Also on7 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ epiforecasts/distspec

1Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

188Commits

6Contributors

188 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19

Issues over time

2026-08-08 · 42026-08-18 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/epiforecasts/distspec on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-11-24

claude

Most recent: claude on 2025-11-24

Evidence

claude: on 2025-11-24 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

cli lifecyclemethodsprimarycensored rlangstatstruncnormutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Sebastian Funk

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Sebastian Funk

Author, Maintainer

Sam Abbott

Author

James M. Azam

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-08-07 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 176 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("distspec")

The authors publish a CITATION.cff, so they have said how they want this cited. Run citation() and use what it gives you.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for distspec version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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