R Observatory: Metrics for Rfast version 2.1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rfast

2.1.5.2

A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions

169packages depend

319.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Manos PapadakisFirst published 2016-07-1049 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of fast (utility) functions for data analysis. Column and row wise means, medians, variances, minimums, maximums, many t, F and G-square tests, many regressions (normal, logistic, Poisson), are some of the many fast functions. References: a) Tsagris M., Papadakis M. (2018). Taking R to its limits: 70+ tips. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26605v1 doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.26605v1. b) Tsagris M. and Papadakis M. (2018). Forward regression in R: from the extreme slow to the extreme fast. Journal of Data Science, 16(4): 771--780. doi:10.6339/JDS.201810_16(4).00006. c) Chatzipantsiou C., Dimitriadis M., Papadakis M. and Tsagris M. (2020). Extremely Efficient Permutation and Bootstrap Hypothesis Tests Using Hypothesis Tests Using R. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 18(2), eP2898. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1806.10947. d) Tsagris M., Papadakis M., Alenazi A. and Alzeley O. (2024). Computationally Efficient Outlier Detection for High-Dimensional Data Using the MDP Algorithm. Computation, 12(9): 185. doi:10.3390/computation12090185. e) Tsagris M. and Papadakis M. (2025). Fast and light-weight energy statistics using the R package Rfast. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.02849.

Install

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

install.packages("Rfast", 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("RfastOfficial/Rfast")

Development version from RfastOfficial/Rfast. 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-rfast

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-Rfast

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-Rfast

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 29.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

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
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 89 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 68%

Downloads

319.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #766 · ~876/day · ~26.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21.2K30 days

67.6K90 days

319.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rfastofficial/rfast

157Stars

22Forks

23Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

1,016Commits

10Contributors

1,016 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-15 · 1502026-07-19 · 157

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rfastofficial/rfast on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

VS Code

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0Rcpp zigg RcppParallel

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel zigg

Suggests (1)

philentropy

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

169direct

28indirect

and 123 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Manos Papadakis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.0.9

Authors (8)

Manos Papadakis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.0.9

Changliang Zou

Author · added in 2.0.9

Giorgos Borboudakis

Author · added in 2.0.9

John Burkardt

Author · added in 2.0.9

Marios Dimitriadis

Author · added in 2.0.9

Matteo Fasiolo

Author · added in 2.0.9

Michail Tsagris

Author · added in 2.0.9

Stefanos Fafalios

Author · added in 2.0.9

Contributors (1)

Morgan Jacob

Contributor · added in 2.1.3

Copyright holders (1)

Manos Papadakis

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.0.9

Listed in earlier versions (6)

Ioannis Tsamardinos

no longer listed · 1.0 to 2.0.8

Kleanthi Lakiotaki

no longer listed · 1.8.3 to 2.0.8

Christina Chatzipantsiou.

no longer listed · 1.9.1 to 2.0.8

Christina Chatzipantsiou

no longer listed · 2.0.9 to 2.1.4

Ioannis Tsamardinos

no longer listed · 2.0.9 to 2.1.2

Kleanthi Lakiotaki

no longer listed · 2.0.9 to 2.1.4

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-10
Total releases: 49 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 330 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Manos Papadakis, Changliang Zou, Giorgos Borboudakis, John Burkardt, Marios Dimitriadis, Matteo Fasiolo, Michail Tsagris, Morgan Jacob, & Stefanos Fafalios. (2025). Rfast: A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions (Version 2.1.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rfast

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