R Observatory: Metrics for RcppThread version 2.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppThread

2.4.0Package record

R-Friendly Threading in C++

44packages depend

172.6Kdownloads / year

80.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas NaglerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a C++11-style thread class and thread pool that can safely be interrupted from R. See Nagler (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v097.c01.

Changes in 2.4.0

update quickpool version 1.7.0: faster algorithms and better CXX23 compatibility.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RcppThread", 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("tnagler/RcppThread")

Development version from tnagler/RcppThread. 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-rcppthread

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-RcppThread

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-RcppThread

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: 3.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4.0

READMEYes · 355 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

RcppThread PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

172.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #851 · ~473/day · ~14.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33.3K30 days

51.7K90 days

172.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.8K r2u8 autocran9.2K conda_forge257 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tnagler/rcppthread ↗Account: tnagler

62Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

19Releases

150Commits

7Commit identities

150 commits · Last activity 2026-06-11 · Discussions: 4 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 72026-07-22 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tnagler/rcppthread on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-11

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RcppThread adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat R.rsp Rcpp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

44direct

82indirect

Imports 2 · LinkingTo 44

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Thomas Nagler

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (26)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-27
Total releases: 26 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 308 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("RcppThread")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v097.c01.

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 RcppThread version 2.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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