R Observatory: Metrics for RcppGSL version 0.3.14

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppGSL

0.3.14

'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices

26packages depend

101Kdownloads / year

70.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2010-12-0123 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'Rcpp' integration for 'GNU GSL' vectors and matrices The 'GNU Scientific Library' (or 'GSL') is a collection of numerical routines for scientific computing. It is particularly useful for C and C++ programs as it provides a standard C interface to a wide range of mathematical routines. There are over 1000 functions in total with an extensive test suite. The 'RcppGSL' package provides an easy-to-use interface between 'GSL' data structures and R using concepts from 'Rcpp' which is itself a package that eases the interfaces between R and C++. This package also serves as a prime example of how to build a package that uses 'Rcpp' to connect to another third-party library. The 'autoconf' script, 'inline' plugin and example package can all be used as a stanza to write a similar package against another library.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppGSL", 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/rcppgsl")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppgsl. 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-rcppgsl

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-RcppGSL

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-RcppGSL

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

70.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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 · 115 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

101K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,265 · ~277/day · ~8.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.5K30 days

25.7K90 days

101K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.2K r2u14 autocran27.5K conda_forge43 bioconda742 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/rcppgsl

33Stars

10Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

402Commits

7Contributors

gnu-gslrcppc-plus-plusr-packagecranhacktoberfest

402 commits · Last activity 2026-03-05

Stars over time

2025-06-19 · 332026-07-07 · 33

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppgsl on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcppstats

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

26direct

31indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Romain Francois

Author

Package Timeline

23 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
0.3.14Latest
2026-03-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.13
2023-01-13 · diff ↗
0.3.12
2022-10-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.11
2022-03-12 · diff ↗
0.3.10
2021-10-07 · diff ↗
0.3.9
2021-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.8
2020-06-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.7
2019-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Show 25 earlier events

0.3.6
2018-06-10 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2018-05-19 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2018-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.3
2017-09-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.2
2017-03-04 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2016-10-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.0
2015-08-30 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2015-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.4
2015-01-24 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2015-01-12 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2014-05-31 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2014-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.2.0
2012-07-23 · 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
0.1.1
2011-04-06 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2010-12-01
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2010-12-01
Total releases: 23 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 364 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Eddelbuettel, D., & Francois, R. (2026). RcppGSL: 'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices (Version 0.3.14) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppGSL

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RcppGSL version 0.3.14 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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