Package: DER
Type: Package
Title: Income Polarization Index
Version: 1.5
Date: 2026-03-28
Authors@R: c(person("Michail", "Tsagris", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "mtsagris@uoc.gr"),
            person("Christos", "Adam", role = "aut", email = "econp266@econ.soc.uoc.gr",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0003-3244-7034")))
Maintainer: Michail Tsagris <mtsagris@uoc.gr>
Depends: R (>= 4.0)
Imports: rangen, Rfast, Rfast2, Rcpp, RcppParallel, stats
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppParallel
Encoding: UTF-8
SystemRequirements: GNU make
Description: Extremely fast and memory efficient computation of the DER (or PaF) income polarization index as proposed by Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). "Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation". Econometrica, 72(6): 1737--1772. <doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00552.x>. The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter and bootstrapping is also available. 
License: GPL (>= 2)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-03-28 14:39:08 UTC; mtsag
Author: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre],
  Christos Adam [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3244-7034>)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-03-29 15:50:36 UTC
Built: R 4.6.0; x86_64-apple-darwin20; 2026-04-27 08:41:43 UTC; unix
Archs: DER.so.dSYM
