R Observatory: Metrics for PRIMME version 3.2-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-06-07. Its history is shown below.

Reason: email to the maintainer is undeliverable

Details below reflect version 3.2-6, its last release before removal.

PRIMME

3.2-6

Eigenvalues and Singular Values and Vectors from Large Matrices

1packages depend

9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eloy Romero13 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

R interface to 'PRIMME' https://www.cs.wm.edu/~andreas/software/, a C library for computing a few eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors of a real symmetric or complex Hermitian matrix, or generalized Hermitian eigenproblem. It can also compute singular values and vectors of a square or rectangular matrix. 'PRIMME' finds largest, smallest, or interior singular/eigenvalues and can use preconditioning to accelerate convergence. General description of the methods are provided in the papers Stathopoulos (2010, doi:10.1145/1731022.1731031) and Wu (2017, doi:10.1137/16M1082214). See 'citation("PRIMME")' for details.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/PRIMME/PRIMME_3.2-6.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "PRIMME_3.2-6.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (3.2-6) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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

Development version from primme/primme. 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-primme

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

# 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-PRIMME

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-04-22
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
2 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 796 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,440 · ~25/day · ~749/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

030 days

23390 days

9K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

RcppMatrix

LinkingTo (2)

RcppMatrix

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Rssa

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Eloy Romero

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Eloy Romero

Author, Maintainer

Andreas Stathopoulos

Author

Lingfei Wu

Author · added in 3.1-2

Copyright holders (1)

College of William & Mary

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-07
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.2-6
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3.2-4
2023-05-10 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-10
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2023-05-05
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-06-28 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-06-28
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-23
check issues were not corrected in time
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2022-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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2020-10-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 13
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 387 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PRIMME")

Format

Romero, E., Stathopoulos, A., Wu, L., & College of William & Mary. (n.d.). PRIMME: Eigenvalues and Singular Values and Vectors from Large Matrices (Version 3.2-6) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 23, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PRIMME

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PRIMME version 3.2-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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