DER

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Income Polarization Index

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Overview

About

Maintained by Michail TsagrisFirst published 2025-02-245 releasesCRAN page ↗

Extremely fast and memory efficient computation of the DER (or PaF) income polarization index as proposed by Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). "Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation". Econometrica, 72(6): 1737--1772. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00552.x. The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter and bootstrapping is also available.

Install

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

install.packages("DER", 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-der

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

# 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-DER

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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NOTE2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 88%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,519 · ~13/day · ~380/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (6)

rangen Rfast Rfast2 Rcpp RcppParallelstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppParallel

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer

Christos Adam

Author · added in 1.2

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-24
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 13 KB
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