R Observatory: Metrics for BB version 2026.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BB

2026.1.0

Solving and Optimizing Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems

40packages depend

123.7Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ravi VaradhanFirst published 2008-04-2220 releasesCRAN page ↗

Barzilai-Borwein spectral methods for solving nonlinear system of equations, and for optimizing nonlinear objective functions subject to simple constraints. A tutorial style introduction to this package is available in a vignette on the CRAN download page or, when the package is loaded in an R session, with vignette("BB").

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BB", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bb

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BB

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BB

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.89

79.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 88%

Downloads

123.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,356 · ~339/day · ~10.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.5K30 days

22.3K90 days

123.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on751 r2u38 autocran2.1K conda_forge64 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (2)

statsquadprog

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

setRNGsurvivalHmisc numDeriv

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

40direct

29indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Ravi Varadhan

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ravi Varadhan

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Paul Gilbert

Author · added in 2013.4-1

Contributors (4)

EG Birgin

Contributor · added in 2013.4-1

W LaCruz

Contributor · added in 2013.4-1

JM Martinez

Contributor · added in 2013.4-1

Marcos Raydan

Contributor · added in 2013.4-1

Copyright holders (1)

Ravi Varadhan

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03

Package metadata

First published: 2008-04-22
Total releases: 20 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 355 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics Optimization and Mathematical Programming

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Format

Varadhan, R., Birgin, E., Gilbert, P., LaCruz, W., Martinez, J., & Raydan, M. (2026). BB: Solving and Optimizing Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems (Version 2026.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BB version 2026.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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