R Observatory: Metrics for gaussDiff version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gaussDiff

1.1.1Package record

Difference Measures for Multivariate Gaussian Probability Density Functions

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henning RustCRAN page ↗Repository ↗

A collection difference measures for multivariate Gaussian probability density functions, such as the Euclidea mean, the Mahalanobis distance, the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the J-Coefficient, the Minkowski L2-distance, the Chi-square divergence and the Hellinger Coefficient.

Install

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

install.packages("gaussDiff", 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-gaussdiff

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-gaussDiff

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-gaussDiff

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: 40 s · 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 1.1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,088 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24530 days

74890 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u4 autocran131 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.met.fu-berlin.de/statmet/gaussdiff ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository gitlab.met.fu-berlin.de/statmet/gaussdiff is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gaussDiff adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 1.8.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Henning Rust

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2010)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-06-12
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-07-30
Total releases: 3 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 1.8.0
Download size: 2.8 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gaussDiff")

Format

Rust, H. (2025). gaussDiff: Difference Measures for Multivariate Gaussian Probability Density Functions (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gaussDiff

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gaussDiff version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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