IncDTW

1.1.4.6

Incremental Calculation of Dynamic Time Warping

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Overview

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Maintained by Maximilian LeodolterFirst published 2017-07-0320 releasesCRAN page ↗

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance measure for time series allows non-linear alignments of time series to match similar patterns in time series of different lengths and or different speeds. IncDTW is characterized by (1) the incremental calculation of DTW (reduces runtime complexity to a linear level for updating the DTW distance) - especially for life data streams or subsequence matching, (2) the vector based implementation of DTW which is faster because no matrices are allocated (reduces the space complexity from a quadratic to a linear level in the number of observations) - for all runtime intensive DTW computations, (3) the subsequence matching algorithm runDTW, that efficiently finds the k-NN to a query pattern in a long time series, and (4) C++ in the heart. For details about DTW see the original paper "Dynamic programming algorithm optimization for spoken word recognition" by Sakoe and Chiba (1978) DOI:10.1109/TASSP.1978.1163055. For details about this package, Dynamic Time Warping and Incremental Dynamic Time Warping please see "IncDTW: An R Package for Incremental Calculation of Dynamic Time Warping" by Leodolter et al. (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v099.i09.

Install

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

install.packages("IncDTW", 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-incdtw

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-IncDTW

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-IncDTW

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

Health

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Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Examples that run: 61%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
References docs: 53%

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Dependencies

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23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

Rcpp RcppParallel ggplot2 scalesparallelstatsdata.table

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Rcpp RcppParallel RcppArmadillo

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-03
Total releases: 20 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 506 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.5 MB
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