R Observatory: Metrics for redist version 4.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

redist

4.3.2Package record

Simulation Methods for Legislative Redistricting

3packages dependsuggested by 2

5.9Kdownloads / year

38.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Enables researchers to sample redistricting plans from a pre-specified target distribution using Sequential Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms. The package allows for the implementation of various constraints in the redistricting process such as geographic compactness and population parity requirements. Tools for analysis such as computation of various summary statistics and plotting functionality are also included. The package implements the SMC algorithm of McCartan and Imai (2023) doi:10.1214/23-AOAS1763, the enumeration algorithm of Fifield, Imai, Kawahara, and Kenny (2020) doi:10.1080/2330443X.2020.1791773, the Flip MCMC algorithm of Fifield, Higgins, Imai and Tarr (2020) doi:10.1080/10618600.2020.1739532, the Merge-split/Recombination algorithms of Carter et al. (2019) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1911.01503 and DeFord et al. (2021) doi:10.1162/99608f92.eb30390f, and the Short-burst optimization algorithm of Cannon et al. (2020) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2011.02288.

Changes in 4.3.2

Allows for parallel flip with chains argument in redist_flip().
Fixes URL issues causing a note on CRAN. We have pointed the links to our website directly.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("redist", 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("alarm-redist/redist")

Development version from alarm-redist/redist. 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-redist

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-redist

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-redist

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: 15.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 2 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.3.2

READMEYes · 206 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.3.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 116 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%52 run in a plain check · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (4)

Introduction to redist HTML
Common Arguments to `redist` Functions HTML
Map Pre-processing for Special Constraints HTML
Redistricting with Flip MCMC HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,134 · ~16/day · ~493/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69630 days

1.6K90 days

5.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on485 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

alarm-redist/redist ↗Organization: alarm-redist

74Stars

28Forks

7Open issues

3Open PRs

14Releases

1,718Commits

18Commit identities

redistrictinggerrymanderingsamplingrgeospatial

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 1,718 commits · Last activity 2026-02-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-05-27 · 692026-07-07 · 74

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/alarm-redist/redist on 2026-10-18.

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 (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-12

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-05
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

35 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing redist adds 58 packages (34 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0redistmetrics

Imports (15)

Rcpp rlang cli vctrs tidyselect stringr dplyr sf doParallel foreach doRNG servr sys ggplot2 patchwork

LinkingTo (5)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppThread cli redistmetrics

Suggests (14)

coda matrixStats loo Rmpi withr knitr rmarkdown rmapshaper ggpattern scales units RSpectra testthat (>= 3.0.0)spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

alarmdata rict redistverse

Suggests, most downloaded first

geomander ggredist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 3.0.1 (2021) · added in 2.0.1

Ben Fifield

Author

Kosuke Imai

Author

Cory McCartan

Author · added in 2.0.1

Michael Higgins

Contributor

Jun Kawahara

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Alexander Tarr

Contributor

Previously maintained by Ben Fifield (1.0 to 2.0.2).

Releases (22)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.3.2Latest
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2026-02-12 · current release · diff ↗
4.3.1
record
2025-10-01 · diff ↗
4.3.0
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2025-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
proj_avg, proj_contr, proj_distr, redist.plot.contr_pfdr
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.2.0
record
2024-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
persily, pick_a_plan, redist.combine, redist.combine.anneal, redist.flip, redist.flip.anneal, redist.plot.interactive, redist.prep.polsbypopper

added 2 exports
combine_scorers, pl
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-04-03
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-03
issues were not corrected in time
4.1.1
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2023-04-03 · diff ↗
4.1.0
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2023-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
redist_ci, redist_mcmc_ci
4.0.1
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2022-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
flip_constraints_helper, imp_confint, redist.mergesplit, redist.smc

added 27 exports
add_constr_compet, add_constr_custom, add_constr_edges_rem, add_constr_fry_hold, add_constr_grp_hinge, add_constr_grp_inv_hinge, add_constr_grp_pow, add_constr_incumbency, add_constr_log_st, add_constr_multisplits, add_constr_polsby, add_constr_pop_dev, add_constr_segregation, add_constr_splits, add_constr_status_quo, add_constr_total_splits, avg_by_prec, min_move_parity, muni_splits, redist.muni.splits, redist.plot.trace, redist.plot.wted.adj, redist.wted.adj, redist_constr, redist_flip_anneal, redist_smc_ci, tally_var
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
3.1.5
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2021-10-06 · diff ↗
3.1.4
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2021-09-19 · diff ↗

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3.1.3
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2021-09-14 · diff ↗
3.1.1
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2021-09-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
redist.choropleth, redist.enumerate, redist.map, redist.mcmc, redist.mcmc.anneal, redist.reindex, redist.samplepart

added 11 exports
persily, pick_a_plan, plans_diversity, redist.dist.pop.overlap, redist.district.splits, redist.multisplits, redist.plot.interactive, redist.prec.pop.overlap, redist.reorder, redist_mergesplit_parallel, scorer_multisplits
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-15
3.0.7
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2021-05-15 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-21
check problems were not corrected in time
3.0.1
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2021-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 83 exports
add_reference, as_redist_map, classify_plans, compare_plans, competitiveness, county_splits, distr_compactness, filter, flip_constraints_helper, freeze, get_adj, get_existing, get_mh_acceptance_rate, get_plans_matrix, get_plans_weights, get_pop_tol, get_sampling_info, get_target, group_frac, imp_confint, is_contiguous, is_county_split, last_plan, make_cores, match_numbers, merge_by, number_by, partisan_metrics, plan_distances, plan_parity and 53 more
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-10-14
2.0.2
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2020-10-14 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-10-04
check issues were not corrected in time
2.0.1
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2020-09-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
redist.adjacency, redist.calc.frontier.size, redist.combine.anneal, redist.compactness, redist.crsg, redist.distances, redist.init.enumpart, redist.map, redist.mcmc.anneal, redist.metrics, redist.parity, redist.prep.enumpart, redist.read.enumpart, redist.run.enumpart, redist.samplepart, redist.smc, redist.smc_is_ci
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3-3
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2018-12-15 · diff ↗
1.3-2
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2018-10-18 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.3-1
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2017-03-15 · diff ↗
1.3
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2016-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
redist.mcmc.mpi, redist.combine, redist.combine.mpi, redist.enumerate, redist.findparams
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.2
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2015-08-21 · diff ↗
1.1
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2015-05-19 · diff ↗
1.0
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2015-05-18
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-18
Total releases: 22 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 799 KB / 8 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("redist")

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

It points to 10.1214/23-aoas1763.

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for redist version 4.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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