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## Declared

[Method](/about/licenses.md)

| Field | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Title | Deep Learning with 'mlr3' |
| Licence | `LGPL (>= 3)` |
| As R reads it | LGPL-3.0-only, OSI approved |
| Needs R | `>= 3.5.0` |
| Compiled code | No |
| System requirements | None |

OSI approval comes from R's licence database and the ids from SPDX. No licence here is judged against another.

## Health

[Method](/about/checks-health.md)

| Check | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| CRAN checks | 13 OK |
| CRAN deadline | None |
| Dependencies with a CRAN deadline | 0 |
| Advisories on the current release | None known |

## Downloads

[Method](/about/downloads.md)

- mlr3torch: 2,996 (CRAN mirror, last 30 days)

[Downloads over time](/downloads/compare/mlr3torch.md)

## Dependencies

[Method](/about/reverse-dependencies.md)

| Names | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Needs, beyond R | 12 [backports](/package/backports.md), [checkmate](/package/checkmate.md), [cli](/package/cli.md), [data.table](/package/data.table.md), [lgr](/package/lgr.md), [mlr3](/package/mlr3.md), [mlr3misc](/package/mlr3misc.md), [mlr3pipelines](/package/mlr3pipelines.md), [paradox](/package/paradox.md), [R6](/package/R6.md), [torch](/package/torch.md), [withr](/package/withr.md) |
| Comes with R | 1 methods |
| Installs with it | 46 [backports](/package/backports.md), [bit](/package/bit.md), [bit64](/package/bit64.md), [callr](/package/callr.md), [checkmate](/package/checkmate.md), [cli](/package/cli.md), [coro](/package/coro.md), [data.table](/package/data.table.md), [desc](/package/desc.md), [digest](/package/digest.md), [evaluate](/package/evaluate.md), [farver](/package/farver.md) and 34 more |
| Suggests or enhances | 17 [callr](/package/callr.md), [curl](/package/curl.md), [future](/package/future.md), [ggplot2](/package/ggplot2.md), [igraph](/package/igraph.md), [jsonlite](/package/jsonlite.md), [knitr](/package/knitr.md), [mlr3tuning](/package/mlr3tuning.md), [progress](/package/progress.md), [rmarkdown](/package/rmarkdown.md), [testthat](/package/testthat.md), [tfevents](/package/tfevents.md) and 5 more |

| Figure | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Dependent CRAN packages | 1 |
| Through other packages | 1 |
| Suggested by CRAN packages | 3 |
| Installs with it, to compile | 21 |
| Installs with it, compressed source | 26.1 MB |

## Code

[Method](/about/code-metrics.md)

| Figure | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Lines of R code | 14,148 |
| Lines of compiled code | 0 |
| Public exports | 157 |
| Internal functions | 181 |

| Names | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Exported functions it defines | 41 `ModelDescriptor`, `TorchIngressToken`, `as_data_descriptor`, `as_lazy_tensor`, `as_lr_scheduler`, `as_torch_callback`, `as_torch_callbacks`, `as_torch_loss`, `as_torch_optimizer`, `assert_lazy_tensor`, `auto_device`, `batchgetter_categ` and 29 more |

Functions it re-exports from another package are left out.

## Tests

[Method](/about/coverage.md)

| Figure | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Lines run by tests | 0% |
| Test cases | 648 |
| Test lines per line of code | 0.69 |
| Exports named in tests | 80.9% |

## Documentation

[Method](/about/code-metrics.md)

| Figure | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Exports documented | 100% |
| Arguments documented | 97.2% |
| Examples run in checks | 100% |
| Guides | 0 |
| README and NEWS | Both |

## People

[Method](/about/author-identity.md)

| Person | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Maintainer | Sebastian Fischer |
| Maintainer since | 8 Jul 2024, from 0.1.0 |
| Earlier maintainers | None on record |
| People and organizations named | 6 |

| Names | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Authors | 2 Sebastian Fischer, Martin Binder |

Names are as each package writes them, so one person can appear under two spellings.

## Repository

[Method](/about/repo-signals.md)

| Field | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Website | [mlr3torch.mlr-org.com](https://mlr3torch.mlr-org.com/) |
| Repository | [github.com/mlr-org/mlr3torch](https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3torch) |
| Issues | [github.com/mlr-org/mlr3torch/issues](https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3torch/issues) |
| Stars | 56 |
| Forks | 10 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Last commit | 22 Oct 2026 |
| Created | 12 Oct 2021 |

## History

[Method](/about/archive.md)

| Figure | mlr3torch |
| --- | --- |
| Status | On CRAN |
| First release | 8 Jul 2024 |
| Latest release | 31 Jan 2026 |
| Releases on record | 9 |
| Releases in the last 365 days | 2 |
| Median days between releases | 66 |
| Times CRAN archived it | 0 |

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