Package: BIDistances
Type: Package
Title: Bioinformatic Distances
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-08-19
Authors@R: c(
    person(
        "Quirin", "Stier",
        email = "Quirin_Stier@gmx.de",
        role = c("aut", "rev", "ctb"),
        comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7896-4737")
    ),
    person(
        "Michael", "Thrun",
        email = "m.thrun@gmx.net",
        role = c("aut", "cre"),
        comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9542-5543")
    ),
    person(
        "Luca", "Brinkmann",
        role = "ctb"
    )
  )
Maintainer: Michael Thrun <m.thrun@gmx.net>
Description: Provides a unified interface for computing, comparing, and
    examining distances, dissimilarities, divergences, and selected
    similarities for bioinformatics data. The core installation exposes 60
    canonical named routes for numerical data and more than 90 when the
    suggested 'philentropy' backend is installed; aliases, user-defined
    functions, and mixed-data combinations are not included in these counts.
    Weighted Minkowski distances can be computed through 'parallelDist', an
    internal multicore implementation, or optional 'OpenCL' kernels, while the
    established weighted Euclidean GPU implementation is retained as the
    optimized p = 2 route. The package also supports theory-guided comparison
    of distance distributions for clustering, explicit mathematical property
    classifications, mixed-data constructions through 'manydist', and a
    specialized Gene Ontology-derived TF-IDF distance.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.8), RcppParallel (>= 5.1.1), parallelDist,
        parallel, DataVisualizations, diptest, e1071, pracma, ggplot2
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, OpenCL, transport, ineq, ScatterDensity,
        memshare, philentropy (>= 0.10.0), dtw, proxy, manydist (>=
        0.5.0), testthat (>= 3.0.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppParallel (>= 5.1.1)
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: GNU make, OpenCL library (optional, for GPU
        acceleration), pandoc (>=1.12.3, needed for vignettes)
License: GPL-3
LazyLoad: yes
LazyData: TRUE
Encoding: UTF-8
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
BugReports: https://github.com/Mthrun/BIDistances/issues
Packaged: 2026-08-20 05:34:18 UTC; mct
Author: Quirin Stier [aut, rev, ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7896-4737>),
  Michael Thrun [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-5543>),
  Luca Brinkmann [ctb]
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-08-20 23:22:16 UTC
Built: R 4.5.2; x86_64-apple-darwin20; 2026-08-21 00:01:23 UTC; unix
Archs: BIDistances.so.dSYM
