R Observatory: Metrics for RcppDE version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppDE

0.1.9

Global Optimization by Differential Evolution in C++

2packages depend

29Kdownloads / year

59.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2010-12-1313 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An efficient C++ based implementation of the 'DEoptim' function which performs global optimization by differential evolution. Its creation was motivated by trying to see if the old approximation "easier, shorter, faster: pick any two" could in fact be extended to achieving all three goals while moving the code from plain old C to modern C++. The initial version did in fact do so, but a good part of the gain was due to an implicit code review which eliminated a few inefficiencies which have since been eliminated in 'DEoptim'.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppDE", 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/rcppde")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppde. 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-rcppde

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-RcppDE

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-RcppDE

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.47

59.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 133 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

29K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,937 · ~79/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

4.7K90 days

29K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.1K r2u20 autocran6.4K conda_forge4.9K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/rcppde

15Stars

11Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

224Commits

6Contributors

224 commits · Last activity 2026-05-11

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 142026-07-07 · 15

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppde on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

inline DEoptimlattice

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

15indirect

Rdimtools ptw

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.8

Authors (6)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.8

David Ardia

Author · added in 0.1.8

Katharine Mullen

Author

Brian Peterson

Author

Rainer Storn

Author · added in 0.1.8

Joshua Ulrich

Author · added in 0.1.8

Contributors (1)

Kris Boudt

Contributor · added in 0.1.8

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel extending DEoptim (by David Ardia

no longer listed · 2.12.1 to 0.1.7

Joshua Ulrich) which itself is based on DE-Engine (by Rainer Storn)

no longer listed · 2.12.1 to 0.1.7

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.9Latest
2026-03-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.8
2025-02-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.7
2022-12-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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
0.1.6
2018-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.5
2016-01-22 · diff ↗

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0.1.4
2015-09-05 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2015-08-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3
2013-12-12 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2013-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.1.1
2012-04-09 · diff ↗
2.15.1
2012-04-08 · diff ↗
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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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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.1.0
2010-12-13 · diff ↗
2.12.1
2010-12-12
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2010-12-13
Total releases: 13 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 284 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Optimization and Mathematical Programming

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Eddelbuettel, D., Ardia, D., Boudt, K., Mullen, K., Peterson, B., Storn, R., & Ulrich, J. (2026). RcppDE: Global Optimization by Differential Evolution in C++ (Version 0.1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppDE

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RcppDE version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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