R Observatory: Metrics for gower version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gower

1.0.2

Gower's Distance

20packages depend

1.6Mdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooFirst published 2016-08-109 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compute Gower's distance (or similarity) coefficient between records. Compute the top-n matches between records. Core algorithms are executed in parallel on systems supporting OpenMP.

Install

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

install.packages("gower", 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("markvanderloo/gower")

Development version from markvanderloo/gower. 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-gower

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-gower

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-gower

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

86.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

1.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #329 · ~4.3K/day · ~132.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

94.2K30 days

329.4K90 days

1.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on25.8K r2u210 autocran288.9K conda_forge4.4K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ markvanderloo/gower

32Stars

5Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

99Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 99 commits · Last activity 2025-05-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-04-17 · 292026-07-07 · 32

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/gower on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

20direct

345indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

David Turner

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.1
2022-12-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2022-02-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.2
2020-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
2019-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
2019-03-07 · diff ↗
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-10
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 184 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gower")

Format

van der Loo, M., & Turner, D. (2024). gower: Gower's Distance (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gower

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gower version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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