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fitteR

Fit Hundreds of Theoretical Distributions to Empirical Data

v0.2.0 · Feb 22, 2022 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Systematic fit of hundreds of theoretical univariate distributions to empirical data via maximum likelihood estimation. Fits are reported and summarized by a data.frame, a csv file or a 'shiny' app (here with additional features like visual representation of fits). All output formats provide assessment of goodness-of-fit by the following methods: Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Shapiro-Wilks test, Anderson-Darling test.

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

1,007

Files

17

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 778 (77.3%)Docs 229 (22.7%)

API

Exported functions

6

Internal functions

3

Recent export changes

v0.1.0+6 ecdf2, fitter, printReport +3 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

No

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.3.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 2)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

2

First release

2017-12-11

Latest release

2022-02-22

Avg cadence

1534 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v0.1.0: 999 LOCv0.2.0: 1,007 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies DT shiny dplyr maxLik R.utils fitteR

Version History

3 tracked
new 0.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Feb 21, 2022
new 0.1.0 Dec 10, 2017