R Observatory: Metrics for pdist version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pdist

1.2.1

Partitioned Distance Function

17packages depend

70.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey WongFirst published 2011-06-194 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computes the euclidean distance between rows of a matrix X and rows of another matrix Y. Previously, this could be done by binding the two matrices together and calling 'dist', but this creates unnecessary computation by computing the distances between a row of X and another row of X, and likewise for Y. pdist strictly computes distances across the two matrices, not within the same matrix, making computations significantly faster for certain use cases.

Install

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

install.packages("pdist", 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("jeffwong/pdist")

Development version from jeffwong/pdist. 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-pdist

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-pdist

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-pdist

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 283 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

70.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,223 · ~193/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.4K30 days

8.5K90 days

70.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jeffwong/pdist

8Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

31Commits

2Contributors

31 commits · Last activity 2014-04-09

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

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Reverse dependencies

17direct

13indirect

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Code & Tests

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Jeffrey Wong

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-19
Total releases: 4 / 15 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 4.4 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pdist version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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