R Observatory: Metrics for reldist version 1.7-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

reldist

1.7-2Package record

Relative Distribution Methods

3packages dependsuggested by 1

22.9Kdownloads / year

54.6%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark S. HandcockCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Tools for the comparison of distributions. This includes nonparametric estimation of the relative distribution PDF and CDF and numerical summaries as described in "Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences" by Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris, Springer-Verlag, 1999, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0387987789.

Install

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

install.packages("reldist", 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-reldist

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-reldist

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-reldist

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: ‘Mark S. Handcock <handcock@stat.ucla.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Mark", "S."),
                    family = "Handcock",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "handcock@stat.ucla.edu")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-04
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-09-01
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-29
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09

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ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-11
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7-2

READMEYes · 257 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 63%

How these are measured

Downloads

22.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,033 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

4.3K90 days

22.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on601 r2u4 autocran2K conda_forge140 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing reldist adds 50 packages (24 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, densEstBayes 4.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

mgcvdensEstBayes

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

locfit

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

lidaRtRee geocmeans accept

Suggests, most downloaded first

blocs

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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

Mark S. Handcock

Maintainer since 1.5-0 (2004)

Releases (16)

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-07-20
Total releases: 16 / 22 yrs
License: GPL-3 + file LICENSE OSI
Bundled data: 60 KB / 2 files
Download size: 174 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("reldist")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for reldist version 1.7-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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