R Observatory: Metrics for RSpectra version 0.16-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RSpectra

0.16-2Package record

Solvers for Large-Scale Eigenvalue and SVD Problems

113packages dependsuggested by 39

917.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yixuan QiuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

R interface to the 'Spectra' library https://spectralib.org/ for large-scale eigenvalue and SVD problems. It is typically used to compute a few eigenvalues/vectors of an n by n matrix, e.g., the k largest eigenvalues, which is usually more efficient than eigen() if k << n. This package provides the 'eigs()' function that does the similar job as in 'Matlab', 'Octave', 'Python SciPy' and 'Julia'. It also provides the 'svds()' function to calculate the largest k singular values and corresponding singular vectors of a real matrix. The matrix to be computed on can be dense, sparse, or in the form of an operator defined by the user.

Changes in 0.16-2

BUG FIXES

Fixed C++20 compiler errors, thanks to Prof. Ripley.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RSpectra", 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("yixuan/RSpectra")

Development version from yixuan/RSpectra. 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-rspectra

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-RSpectra

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-RSpectra

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: 5.6 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

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.16-2

READMEYes · 271 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 0.16-2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Large-Scale Eigenvalue Decomposition and SVD with RSpectra

How these are measured

Downloads

917.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #403 · ~2.5K/day · ~76.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

74.2K30 days

221.4K90 days

917.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on40.2K r2u124 autocran222.6K conda_forge603 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

yixuan/rspectra ↗Account: yixuan

90Stars

12Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

102Commits

3Commit identities

eigenvaluesspectrasvd

102 commits · Last activity 2024-07-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 80
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 15

Stars over time

2025-07-21 · 832026-07-20 · 90

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/yixuan/rspectra on 2026-10-18.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RSpectra adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (2)

MatrixRcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown prettydoc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

113direct

233indirect

Depends 6 · Imports 103 · LinkingTo 8

Suggested by 39

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 65 more dependents and 39 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Yixuan Qiu

Author, Maintainer since 0.11-0 (2016)

Jiali Mei

Author

Function interface of matrix operation

Gael Guennebaud

Contributor

Eigenvalue solvers from the 'Eigen' library

Jitse Niesen

Contributor

Eigenvalue solvers from the 'Eigen' library

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.16-2Latest
record
2024-07-18 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.16-1
record
2022-04-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.16-0
record
2019-12-01 · diff ↗
0.15-0
record
2019-06-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.14-0
record
2019-04-04 · diff ↗
0.13-1
record
2018-05-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Show 4 earlier eventsHide 4 earlier events

0.12-0
record
2016-06-12 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.11-0
record
2016-02-29
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-29
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MPL (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 125 KB

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RSpectra")

Format

Qiu, Y., Guennebaud, G., Mei, J., & Niesen, J. (2024). RSpectra: Solvers for Large-Scale Eigenvalue and SVD Problems (Version 0.16-2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RSpectra

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 RSpectra version 0.16-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →