distcomp

1.3-4

Computations over Distributed Data without Aggregation

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Overview

About

Maintained by Balasubramanian NarasimhanFirst published 2015-06-0312 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implementing algorithms and fitting models when sites (possibly remote) share computation summaries rather than actual data over HTTP with a master R process (using 'opencpu', for example). A stratified Cox model and a singular value decomposition are provided. The former makes direct use of code from the R 'survival' package. (That is, the underlying Cox model code is derived from that in the R 'survival' package.) Sites may provide data via several means: CSV files, Redcap API, etc. An extensible design allows for new methods to be added in the future and includes facilities for local prototyping and testing. Web applications are provided (via 'shiny') for the implemented methods to help in designing and deploying the computations.

Install

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

install.packages("distcomp", 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-distcomp

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-distcomp

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-distcomp

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 243 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 74%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,411 · ~11/day · ~336/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0survivalstats

Imports (12)

utilsshiny httr digest jsonlite stringr R6 dplyr rlang magrittr homomorpheR gmp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

opencpu knitr covr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Author, Maintainer

Marina Bendersky

Author

Sam Gross

Author

Contributors (2)

Thomas Lumley

Contributor

Terry M. Therneau

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Terry M.

no longer listed · 0.25.1 to 1.3-4

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-03
Total releases: 12 / 11 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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