R Observatory: Metrics for RSNNS version 0.4-18

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RSNNS

0.4-18

Neural Networks using the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS)

5packages dependsuggested by 5

60.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christoph BergmeirCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS) is a library containing many standard implementations of neural networks. This package wraps the SNNS functionality to make it available from within R. Using the 'RSNNS' low-level interface, all of the algorithmic functionality and flexibility of SNNS can be accessed. Furthermore, the package contains a convenient high-level interface, so that the most common neural network topologies and learning algorithms integrate seamlessly into R.

Install

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

install.packages("RSNNS", 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("cbergmeir/RSNNS")

Development version from cbergmeir/RSNNS. 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-rsnns

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-RSNNS

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-RSNNS

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4-18

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 75includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%23 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 48%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 21%

Also includes 34 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

60.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,975 · ~165/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.2K30 days

9.3K90 days

60.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on522 r2u15 autocran4.8K conda_forge193 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cbergmeir/rsnns ↗Account: cbergmeir

26Stars

5Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

183Commits

6Commit identities

183 commits · Last activity 2026-01-29 · -3.7% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 34
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-26 · 272026-09-24 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cbergmeir/rsnns on 2026-10-11.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RSNNS adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.10.0methodsRcpp

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

scatterplot3d NeuralNetTools plot3D

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

E2E TSPred noisemodel scanCP FRI

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr NeuralNetTools caretSDM NeuralSens FSinR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (26)

Christoph Bergmeir

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2010), Copyright holder

Jochen Biedermann

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Joachim Danz

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Jamie DeCoster

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Sven Döring

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Andre El-Ama

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Contributors to SNNS Version 4.3

Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Kai-Uwe Herrmann

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Ralf Hübner

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

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Bernward Kett

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Patrick Kursawe

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Contributors to SNNS Version 4.3

Niels Mache

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Günter Mamier

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Dietmar Posselt

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Martin Reczko

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Martin Riedmiller

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Marcus Ritt

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Michael Schmalzl

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Tobias Schreiner

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Mark Seemann

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS external contributors

Tilman Sommer

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Tobias Soyez

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Michael Vogt

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Christian Wehrfritz

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

Andreas Zell

Contributor · added in 0.4-10

Part of original SNNS development team

José M. Benítez

Thesis advisor · added in 0.4-3

Releases (21)

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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 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-10

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orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2018-08-10
C++ issues were not corrected since 2017 despite reminders
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-05-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 17 exports
art1.default, art2.default, artmap.default, assoz.default, dlvq.default, elman.default, jordan.default, mlp.default, rbf.default, rbfDDA.default, plotIterativeError.rsnns, print.rsnns, summary.rsnns, train.rsnns, predict.rsnns, weightMatrix.rsnns, som.default
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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plotIterativeError.reg_class

added 10 exports
artmap, artmap.default, denormalizeData, getNormParameters, normTrainingAndTestSet, plotIterativeError.rsnns, extractNetInfo, exportToSnnsNetFile, weightMatrix, weightMatrix.rsnns
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2010-11-15
Total releases: 21 / 16 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: Original SNNS software Copyright (C) 1990-1995 SNNS Group, IPVR, Univ. Stuttgart, FRG; 1996-1998 SNNS Group, WSI, Univ. Tuebingen, FRG. R interface Copyright (C) DiCITS Lab, Sci2s group, DECSAI, University of Granada.
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 402 KB / 1 file
Download size: 948 KB

Appears in task views

Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("RSNNS")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 RSNNS version 0.4-18 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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