distributional

Overview

About

Maintained by Mitchell O'Hara-WildFirst published 2020-06-0914 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Vectorised distribution objects with tools for manipulating, visualising, and using probability distributions. Designed to allow model prediction outputs to return distributions rather than their parameters, allowing users to directly interact with predictive distributions in a data-oriented workflow. In addition to providing generic replacements for p/d/q/r functions, other useful statistics can be computed including means, variances, intervals, and highest density regions.

Install

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

install.packages("distributional", 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("mitchelloharawild/distributional")

Development version from mitchelloharawild/distributional. 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-distributional

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-distributional

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.28

70.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 364 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 6%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #102 · ~16.5K/day · ~501.6K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mitchelloharawild/distributional

113Stars

20Forks

39Open issues

2Open PRs

13Releases

643Commits

12Contributors

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

vctrs rlang genericsstatsnumDerivutilslifecycle pillar

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none

Suggests (10)

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People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Author, Maintainer

Alex Hayes

Author · added in 0.2.0

Rob Hyndman

Author · added in 0.5.0

Matthew Kay

Author · added in 0.2.0

Contributors (2)

Vencislav Popov

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Earo Wang

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

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2026-06-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-09
Total releases: 14 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 135 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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