R Observatory: Metrics for RANN version 2.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RANN

2.6.2

Fast Nearest Neighbour Search (Wraps ANN Library) Using L2 Metric

99packages depend

718.8Kdownloads / year

52.6%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gregory JefferisFirst published 2013-07-247 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Finds the k nearest neighbours for every point in a given dataset in O(N log N) time using Arya and Mount's ANN library (v1.1.3). There is support for approximate as well as exact searches, fixed radius searches and 'bd' as well as 'kd' trees. The distance is computed using the L2 (Euclidean) metric. Please see package 'RANN.L1' for the same functionality using the L1 (Manhattan, taxicab) metric.

Install

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

install.packages("RANN", 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("jefferislab/RANN")

Development version from jefferislab/RANN. 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-rann

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-RANN

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-RANN

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.96

52.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 146 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

718.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #464 · ~2K/day · ~59.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

54.5K30 days

174.3K90 days

718.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.9K r2u118 autocran130.8K conda_forge312 bioconda80 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ jefferislab/rann

64Stars

11Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

197Commits

7Contributors

nearest-neighboursann-libraryrr-packagenearest-neighbors

197 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-18 · 612026-07-07 · 64

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jefferislab/rann on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

99direct

81indirect

and 51 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Gregory Jefferis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Gregory Jefferis

Author, Maintainer

Sunil Arya

Author, Copyright holder

Samuel E. Kemp

Author

David Mount

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.6.2

Contributors (1)

Kirill Müller

Contributor

Copyright holders (3)

Sunil Arya

Author, Copyright holder

David Mount

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.6.2

University of Maryland

Copyright holder · added in 2.6.2

Listed in earlier versions (3)

David Mount (for ANN)

no longer listed · 2.3.0 to 2.6.1

Kemp

no longer listed · 2.6.2

Kirill M\u00fcller

no longer listed · 2.6.2

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-24
Total releases: 7 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 58 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("RANN")

Format

Jefferis, G., University of Maryland, Arya, S., Kemp, S. E., Mount, D., & Müller, K. (2024). RANN: Fast Nearest Neighbour Search (Wraps ANN Library) Using L2 Metric (Version 2.6.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RANN

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RANN version 2.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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