philentropy
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Plans and prices
From philentropy's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| philentropy | Free | R package · GPL-2 licensed |
The facts
Each one read from philentropy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Data import formats
- R matrix, data.framechecked 24 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- desktopchecked 24 Sep 2026
- Distance methods
- Its distance() function implements 46 probability distance and similarity measures.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Information theory
- The package includes functions for Shannon entropy, joint entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, Kullback–Leibler divergence, and Jensen–Shannon divergence.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Input handling
- The package can estimate probability vectors from counts and compare many probability density functions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The site provides installation instructions for the CRAN package and a developer version installable from GitHub.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The CRAN package imports Rcpp, RcppParallel, KernSmooth, and poorman.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The introduction says the package is aimed at scientific work comparing univariate or multivariate probability functions across disciplines including mathematics and ecology.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The project lists GPL-2 as its license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The project identifies Hajk-Georg Drost as author and maintainer and says he develops philentropy in his spare time.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Performance
- The 0.10.0 changelog says the distance calculation engine was refactored with C++ template metaprogramming and RcppParallel for speed and memory usage improvements.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- The R package implements distance and similarity measures for comparing probability density functions and information theory measures.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scripting support
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Support
- The project links to GitHub for reporting bugs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- The package is intended for clustering, classification, statistical inference, goodness-of-fit, non-parametric statistics, information theory, and machine learning tasks involving probability functions.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- CRAN lists Windows and macOS binaries and provides a source package; its package information lists R as a dependency.checked 12 Oct 2026
