distantia

2.0.3

Advanced Toolset for Efficient Time Series Dissimilarity Analysis

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4.7Kdownloads / year

72.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Blas M. BenitoFirst published 2019-07-047 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fast C++ implementation of Dynamic Time Warping for time series dissimilarity analysis, with applications in environmental monitoring and sensor data analysis, climate science, signal processing and pattern recognition, and financial data analysis. Built upon the ideas presented in Benito and Birks (2020) doi:10.1111/ecog.04895, provides tools for analyzing time series of varying lengths and structures, including irregular multivariate time series. Key features include individual variable contribution analysis, restricted permutation tests for statistical significance, and imputation of missing data via GAMs. Additionally, the package provides an ample set of tools to prepare and manage time series data.

Install

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

install.packages("distantia", 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("BlasBenito/distantia")

Development version from BlasBenito/distantia. 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-distantia

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-distantia

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-distantia

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

72.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-02
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NOTE2026-04-22
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 927 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,462 · ~13/day · ~389/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ blasbenito/distantia

24Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

491Commits

2Contributors

dissimilaritydynamic-time-warpinglock-steptime-series

491 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/blasbenito/distantia on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1doFuture

Imports (6)

Rcpp zoo foreach future.apply lubridate progressr

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (5)

roxyglobals spelling sf lwgeom testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 21,084 (56%)Rd 12,299 (33%)C++ 3,995 (11%)C 299 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 27 max
Test cases: 69 / 0.12 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

72%

Expression

68.5%

Tests / Examples

72.3% / – ex

Functions

273 177 exported

Complexity

4.3 avg / 27 max

Call network

273 nodes / 382 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

273 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
color_continuous exp	1	0%
color_discrete exp	13	0%
distantia_boxplot exp	2	0%
distantia_dtw_plot exp	7	0%
f_list exp	1	0%
momentum_boxplot exp	2	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 6

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
cities_temperature	data.frame	8,420 × 3	–
covid_prevalence	data.frame	7,092 × 3	–
distances	data.frame	12 × 5	–
eemian_pollen	data.frame	376 × 24	–
fagus_dynamics	data.frame	648 × 5	–
honeycomb_climate	tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	9,432 × 4	–

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

2.0.3Latest
2026-05-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.2
2025-02-01 · diff ↗
2.0.1
2025-01-23 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2025-01-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.2
2019-10-29 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2019-08-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2019-07-04
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-04
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 608 KB / 12 files
Download size: 837 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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