R Observatory: Metrics for RcppAnnoy version 0.0.23

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppAnnoy

0.0.23

'Rcpp' Bindings for 'Annoy', a Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors

6packages dependsuggested by 1

673Kdownloads / year

76.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'Annoy' is a small C++ library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors written for efficient memory usage as well an ability to load from / save to disk. This package provides an R interface by relying on the 'Rcpp' package, exposing the same interface as the original Python wrapper to 'Annoy'. See https://github.com/spotify/annoy for more on 'Annoy'. 'Annoy' is released under Version 2.0 of the Apache License. Also included is a small Windows port of 'mmap' which is released under the MIT license.

Changes in 0.0.23

Add dot product distance metrics (Benjamin James in 78)
Apply small polish to the documentation (Dirk closing 79)
A new demo() has been added (Samuel Granjeaud in 79)
Switch to Authors@R in DESCRIPTION
Several updates to continuous integration and README.md
Small enhancements to package help files
Updates to vignettes and references
Vignette now uses Rcpp::asis builder (Dirk in 80)
Switch one macro to a function to avoid a compiler nag (Amos Elberg in 81)

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RcppAnnoy", 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("eddelbuettel/rcppannoy")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppannoy. 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-rcppannoy

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-RcppAnnoy

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-RcppAnnoy

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.23

READMEYes · 225 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · mentions 0.0.23Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 25%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Using Annoy in C++ PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

673K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #484 · ~1.8K/day · ~56.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53.6K30 days

158.4K90 days

673K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on27.9K r2u11 autocran207.6K conda_forge730 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/rcppannoy ↗Account: eddelbuettel

76Stars

24Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

285Commits

12Commit identities

r-packagercranannoynearest-neighborsnearest

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 285 commits · Last activity 2026-01-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-21 · 752026-08-16 · 76

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (2)

methodsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

75indirect

Imports 6 · LinkingTo 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

uwot Seurat bbknnR scDHA blocking bigANNOY

Suggests, most downloaded first

VectrixDB

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2014)

Erik Bernhardsson

Author · added in 0.0.23

Principal author of Annoy

Releases (22)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-11-16
Total releases: 22 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 115 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("RcppAnnoy")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., & Bernhardsson, E. (2026). RcppAnnoy: 'Rcpp' Bindings for 'Annoy', a Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors (Version 0.0.23) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppAnnoy

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RcppAnnoy version 0.0.23 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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