R Observatory: Metrics for parallelDist version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

parallelDist

0.2.7Package record

Parallel Distance Matrix Computation using Multiple Threads

9packages dependsuggested by 11

54.3Kdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander EckertCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A fast parallelized alternative to R's native 'dist' function to calculate distance matrices for continuous, binary, and multi-dimensional input matrices, which supports a broad variety of 41 predefined distance functions from the 'stats', 'proxy' and 'dtw' R packages, as well as user- defined functions written in C++. For ease of use, the 'parDist' function extends the signature of the 'dist' function and uses the same parameter naming conventions as distance methods of existing R packages. The package is mainly implemented in C++ and leverages the 'RcppParallel' package to parallelize the distance computations with the help of the 'TinyThread' library. Furthermore, the 'Armadillo' linear algebra library is used for optimized matrix operations during distance calculations. The curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) technique is applied to avoid virtual functions, which improves the Dynamic Time Warping calculations while the implementation stays flexible enough to support different DTW step patterns and normalization methods.

Changes in 0.2.7

Removed C++11 dependency to support newer Armadillo versions

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("parallelDist", 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("alexeckert/parallelDist")

Development version from alexeckert/parallelDist. 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-paralleldist

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-parallelDist

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-parallelDist

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:
  parallelDist/tests/testthat/testMatrixListDTWDistances.R (.Dim: 8)
  parallelDist/inst/doc/parallelDist.R (.Label: 1, .Names: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Label' should be changed to 'levels'.
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.7

READMEYes · 384 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 0.2.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

parallelDist vignette PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

54.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,596 · ~149/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

14.5K90 days

54.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.7K r2u5 autocran8.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

alexeckert/paralleldist ↗Account: alexeckert

54Stars

10Forks

8Open issues

3Open PRs

9Releases

64Commits

5Commit identities

distance-computationscranmatricesrdata-science

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 64 commits · Last activity 2025-09-27 · -1.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 76%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-01-12 · 512026-10-03 · 54

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/alexeckert/paralleldist on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing parallelDist adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (2)

Rcpp RcppParallel

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppParallel RcppArmadillo

Suggests (6)

dtw ggplot2 proxy testthat RcppArmadillo RcppXPtrUtils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

1indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 11

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Suggests, most downloaded first

DataVisualizations FCPS AdaptGauss IncDTW ProjectionBasedClustering DatabionicSwarm phylospatial ScatterDensity DistributionOptimization manydist PDEnaiveBayes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Alexander Eckert

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Lucas Godoy

Contributor · added in 0.2.3

Srikanth KS

Contributor · added in 0.2.3

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-06
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 332 KB

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Format

Eckert, A., Godoy, L., & KS, S. (2025). parallelDist: Parallel Distance Matrix Computation using Multiple Threads (Version 0.2.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.parallelDist

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for parallelDist version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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