R Observatory: Metrics for DEoptim version 2.2-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DEoptim

2.2-8Package record

Global Optimization by Differential Evolution

41packages dependsuggested by 13

234.7Kdownloads / year

55.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Katharine MullenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the Differential Evolution algorithm for global optimization of a real-valued function of a real-valued parameter vector as described in Mullen et al. (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i06.

Changes in 2.2-8

Fixed uninitialized variable issue found via valgrind. Thanks to Prof Ripley for the report.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ArdiaD/DEoptim")

Development version from ArdiaD/DEoptim. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-deoptim

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-DEoptim

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-DEoptim

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Katharine Mullen <mullenkate@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-15
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-12
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-19
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2-8

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2-8Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS articleCites an R Journal article

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

234.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #729 · ~643/day · ~19.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38.2K30 days

70.3K90 days

234.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.1K r2u8 autocran11.3K conda_forge155 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ardiad/deoptim ↗Account: ArdiaD

31Stars

17Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

192Commits

7Commit identities

optimizationdifferential-evolutionglobal-optimizationevolutionary-algorithm

192 commits · Last activity 2022-11-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 22

Stars over time

2025-08-07 · 302026-09-15 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/ardiad/deoptim on 2026-10-11.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DEoptim adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

parallel

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

foreach iterators colorspacelatticeparallelly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

41direct

80indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 37

Suggested by 13

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

airGR openEBGM PortfolioAnalytics RcppDE BayesianTools binaryRL SpaDES.tools

and 6 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Katharine Mullen

Author, Maintainer since 2.0-0 (2009) · added in 2.0-0

David Ardia

Author

Brian Peterson

Author · added in 2.0-7

Joshua Ulrich

Author · added in 2.0-7

Kris Boudt

Contributor · added in 2.2-3

Previously maintained by David Ardia (1.0-6 to 1.3-3).

Releases (30)

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-08-09
Total releases: 30 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 35 KB / 2 files
Download size: 64 KB

Appears in task views

Optimization and Mathematical Programming

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DEoptim version 2.2-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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