R Observatory: Metrics for gower version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gower

1.0.2Package record

Gower's Distance

11packages dependsuggested by 9

1.5Mdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.0.2

Imporved sanity checking on input data frames (Thanks to Brian Ripley for pointing this out)

From NEWS in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 2.2 min · 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 1.0.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the gower package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #339 · ~4.1K/day · ~123.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

99.9K30 days

291.9K90 days

1.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on27.7K r2u302 autocran305.3K conda_forge17.3K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

markvanderloo/gower ↗Account: markvanderloo

32Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

99Commits

3Commit identities

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 302026-07-07 · 32

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/gower on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

348indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 10

Suggested by 9

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

recipes themis lime radiant.multivariate simputation condvis2 ceterisParibus live imputeGeneric survalis GowerSom

Suggests, most downloaded first

DALEX iml ingredients yaImpute aqp CAST sharpshootR counterfactuals xplainfi

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

David Turner

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-12-17 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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2022-12-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
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2022-02-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.2
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2020-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
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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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0.1.2
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2017-02-23 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2016-08-26 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2016-08-10
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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

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

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

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 gower version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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