R Observatory: Metrics for pdcor version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pdcor

1.3Package record

Fast and Light-Weight Partial Distance Correlation

1packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michail TsagrisCRAN page ↗

Fast and memory-less computation of the partial distance correlation for vectors and matrices. Permutation-based and asymptotic hypothesis testing for zero partial distance correlation are also performed. References include: Szekely G. J. and Rizzo M. L. (2014). "Partial distance correlation with methods for dissimilarities". The Annals Statistics, 42(6): 2382--2412. doi:10.1214/14-AOS1255. Shen C., Panda S. and Vogelstein J. T. (2022). "The Chi-Square Test of Distance Correlation". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 31(1): 254--262. doi:10.1080/10618600.2021.1938585. Szekely G. J. and Rizzo M. L. (2023). "The Energy of Data and Distance Correlation". Chapman and Hall/CRC. <ISBN:9781482242744>. Kontemeniotis N., Vargiakakis R. and Tsagris M. (2025). On independence testing using the (partial) distance correlation. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.15659.

Install

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

install.packages("pdcor", 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-pdcor

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-pdcor

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-pdcor

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: 52 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,307 · ~9/day · ~278/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28830 days

79190 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on86 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pdcor adds 7 packages (7 with compiled code, 3.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (4)

dcov rangen Rfaststats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rfast2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

estats

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2025)

Nikolaos Kontemeniotis

Author

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-25
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 3.5 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pdcor")

Format

Tsagris, M., & Kontemeniotis, N. (2026). pdcor: Fast and Light-Weight Partial Distance Correlation (Version 1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pdcor

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

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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 pdcor version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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