distr

2.9.7

Object Oriented Implementation of Distributions

25packages depend

68.8Kdownloads / year

25.9%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter RuckdeschelFirst published 2004-04-2236 releasesCRAN page ↗

S4-classes and methods for distributions.

Install

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

install.packages("distr", 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-distr

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-distr

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-distr

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 6.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

25.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-05-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-06
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 47%
References docs: 18%

Downloads

68.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,746 · ~188/day · ~5.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.4K30 days

15.2K90 days

68.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on984 r2u234 autocran5.1K conda_forge107 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 3.4methodsgraphicsstartupmsg sfsmisc

Imports (4)

statsgrDevicesutilsMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

distrEx svUnit knitr distrMod ROptEst

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

25direct

7indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Peter Ruckdeschel

Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Matthias Kohl

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (3)

R Core Team

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 2.5.2

Florian Camphausen

Contributor

Thomas Stabla

Contributor

Peter Ruckdeschel

Maintainer, Copyright holder

Matthias Kohl

Author, Copyright holder

R Core Team

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 2.5.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-04-22
Total releases: 36 / 22 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 535 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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