{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45","id":160277575,"number":45,"title":"Would it make sense to move StatsBase's distances/divergences here?","user":{"login":"ararslan","id":6396159,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6396159?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan","html_url":"https://github.com/ararslan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2016-06-14T20:35:20Z","updated_at":"2016-06-20T17:18:48Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Currently StatsBase defines the L2, squared L2, L1, and L-inf distances, as well as the generalized Kullback-Leibler divergence, and the mean absolute, max absolute, mean squared, and root mean squared deviations. It seems to me that those may be better served in a package dedicated to distance metrics such as this one, particularly since other functions in StatsBase don't appear to rely on them. Thoughts?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/comments/227208455","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45#issuecomment-227208455","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaStats/Distances.jl/issues/45","id":227208455,"user":{"login":"ararslan","id":6396159,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6396159?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan","html_url":"https://github.com/ararslan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ararslan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-06-20T17:18:48Z","updated_at":"2016-06-20T17:18:48Z","body":"I'd be more than happy to help out with JuliaStats stuff if active devs are scarce!\r\n\r\nDo you know of a good way to go about determining which packages rely on the StatsBase distance functions? Deprecating them could be done in a similar manner to the prime number functions in base Julia, for which the deprecation message says to use the Primes package. In this case, it could be as simple as s/Primes/Distances/ and figuring out how long we want to keep them deprecated before removing them.\r\n\r\nSure, if no one else responds soon I'll open an issue on StatsBase."}}
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