R Observatory: Metrics for RTMB version 1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RTMB

1.9

'R' Bindings for 'TMB'

13packages depend

17.9Kdownloads / year

46.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kasper KristensenFirst published 2023-08-108 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Native 'R' interface to 'TMB' (Template Model Builder) so models can be written entirely in 'R' rather than 'C++'. Automatic differentiation, to any order, is available for a rich subset of 'R' features, including linear algebra for dense and sparse matrices, complex arithmetic, Fast Fourier Transform, probability distributions and special functions. 'RTMB' provides easy access to model fitting and validation following the principles of Kristensen, K., Nielsen, A., Berg, C. W., Skaug, H., & Bell, B. M. (2016) DOI:10.18637/jss.v070.i05 and Thygesen, U.H., Albertsen, C.M., Berg, C.W. et al. (2017) DOI:10.1007/s10651-017-0372-4.

Install

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

install.packages("RTMB", 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("kaskr/RTMB")

Development version from kaskr/RTMB. 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-rtmb

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-RTMB

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-RTMB

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 21.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

46.9%

Coverage · measured lines

56%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-04-22
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
5 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 6 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

17.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,948 · ~49/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

4.7K90 days

17.9K1 year

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Also on735 r2u20 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ kaskr/rtmb

80Stars

12Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

770Commits

7Contributors

770 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 672026-07-07 · 80

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kaskr/rtmb on 2026-08-16.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

RcppMatrixmethodsTMBMASS

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp TMB RcppEigen

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown igraph tinytest numDeriv tinyplot microbenchmark

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

13direct

1indirect

BayesRTMB LaMa RTMBdist ecostate fishgrowth PKbioanalysis ctsmTMB dsem multiSA pmrm salmonMSE tsissm tmbstan

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-10
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 662 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RTMB")

Format

Kristensen, K. (2026). RTMB: 'R' Bindings for 'TMB' (Version 1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RTMB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RTMB version 1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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