R Observatory: Metrics for rankdist version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rankdist

1.1.4Package record

Distance Based Ranking Models

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.2Kdownloads / year

24.5%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhaozhi QianCRAN page ↗

Implements distance based probability models for ranking data. The supported distance metrics include Kendall distance, Spearman distance, Footrule distance, Hamming distance, Weighted-tau distance and Weighted Kendall distance. Phi-component model and mixture models are also supported.

Install

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

install.packages("rankdist", 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-rankdist

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-rankdist

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-rankdist

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Zhaozhi Qian <qianzhaozhi@connect.hku.hk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Zhaozhi",
                    family = "Qian",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "qianzhaozhi@connect.hku.hk")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 25includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 9%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 73%
Help pages citing references: 24%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,094 · ~9/day · ~266/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33430 days

87890 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on345 r2u3 autocran117 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rankdist adds 7 packages (2 with compiled code, 6.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: optimx 2.2 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

Rcpp hash optimx permutemethods

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

PLMIX

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Zhaozhi Qian

Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2015)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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1.0.0
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2015-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
DistanceBlock, DistanceMatrix, DistancePair, GenerateExample, GenerateExampleTopQ, ModelSummary
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-05
Total releases: 8 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.8 KB / 2 files
Download size: 29 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rankdist")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v090.i05.

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 rankdist version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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