R Observatory: Metrics for dtw version 1.23-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dtw

1.23-3Package record

Dynamic Time Warping Algorithms

13packages dependsuggested by 5

121.7Kdownloads / year

35.7%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Toni GiorginoCRAN page ↗Website ↗

A comprehensive implementation of dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithms in R. DTW computes the optimal (least cumulative distance) alignment between points of two time series. Common DTW variants covered include local (slope) and global (window) constraints, subsequence matches, arbitrary distance definitions, normalizations, minimum variance matching, and so on. Provides cumulative distances, alignments, specialized plot styles, etc., as described in Giorgino (2009) doi:10.18637/jss.v031.i07.

Install

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

install.packages("dtw", 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-dtw

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-dtw

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-dtw

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  dtw/man/stepPattern.Rd (.Dim: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK14 OK2026-04-11
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.23-3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 58%
Help pages citing references: 40%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Computing and Visualizing Dynamic Time Warping Alignments in R: The dtw Package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

121.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,248 · ~333/day · ~10.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8K30 days

24.7K90 days

121.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.8K r2u106 autocran7.4K conda_forge301 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dynamictimewarping/dynamictimewarping.github.io ↗Organization: DynamicTimeWarping

1Stars

1Forks

0Open PRs

0Releases

90Commits

1Commit identities

90 commits · Last activity 2026-10-10

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2021-04-17 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dynamictimewarping/dynamictimewarping.github.io on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-10

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dtw adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 70 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: proxy 70 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10.0proxy

Imports (4)

graphicsgrDevicesstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

13direct

21indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 10

Suggested by 5

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

dtwclust verification warbleR MarketMatching VLTimeCausality DTWBI DTWUMI AnomalyScore squat pGRN ssMousetrack rplanes ddc

Suggests, most downloaded first

parallelDist rucrdtw soundgen IncDTW BIDistances

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Toni Giorgino

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-2 (2007)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Paolo Tormene

no longer listed · 1.0-2 to 1.12-5

with contributions from Paolo Tormene

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 0.4-2

Releases (25)

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removed 2 exports
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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dtw, dtwDist, dtwPlot, dtwPlotAlignment, dtwPlotDensity, dtwPlotThreeWay, dtwPlotTwoWay, noWindow, sakoeChibaWindow, slantedBandWindow, itakuraWindow, dtwWindow.plot, mvmStepPattern, rabinerJuangStepPattern, symmetric1, symmetric2, asymmetric, symmetricP0, asymmetricP0, symmetricP05, asymmetricP05, symmetricP1, asymmetricP1, symmetricP2, asymmetricP2, typeIa, typeIas, typeIb, typeIbs, typeIc and 12 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2007-12-02
Total releases: 25 / 19 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 30 KB / 2 files
Download size: 742 KB

Appears in task views

Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("dtw")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v031.i07, 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.11.007.

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 dtw version 1.23-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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