distfromq

1.0.4

Reconstruct a Distribution from a Collection of Quantiles

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Overview

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Maintained by Evan RayFirst published 2024-09-131 releasesCRAN page ↗

Given a set of predictive quantiles from a distribution, estimate the distribution and create `d`, `p`, `q`, and `r` functions to evaluate its density function, distribution function, and quantile function, and generate random samples. On the interior of the provided quantiles, an interpolation method such as a monotonic cubic spline is used; the tails are approximated by a location-scale family.

Install

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

install.packages("distfromq", 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-distfromq

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-distfromq

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

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8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (6)

checkmate purrrsplinesstatsutilszeallot

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Evan Ray

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Evan Ray

Author, Maintainer

Aaron Gerding

Author

Contributors (2)

Nick Reich

Contributor

Li Shandross

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.4Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-13
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 162 KB
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