R Observatory: Metrics for Rserve version 1.8-19

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-29 or it will be archived.

Rserve

1.8-19

Versatile R Server

3packages depend

93.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Simon UrbanekFirst published 2006-11-1631 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Rserve is a versatile, scalable server enabling the efficient use of R from other applications through variety of protocols including QAP, WebSockets, HTTP and HTTPS. It acts as a server (TCP/IP or local sockets) which allows binary requests to be sent to R. Every connection has a separate workspace and working directory. Client-side implementations are available for many popular languages allowing applications to use facilities of R without the need of linking to the R binary. Rserve supports remote connections, user authentication and file transfer. A simple R client is included in this package as well. It also supports OCAP mode for secure remote procedure calls, including support for full event loop, asynchronous results/graphics and console I/O.

Install

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

install.packages("Rserve", 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("s-u/Rserve")

Development version from s-u/Rserve. 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-rserve

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-Rserve

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-Rserve

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

Health

CRAN checks

2WARNING11NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-07-16
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 14%

Downloads

93.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,478 · ~257/day · ~7.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.6K30 days

18.2K90 days

93.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on867 r2u206 autocran10.5K conda_forge103 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ s-u/rserve

290Stars

64Forks

25Open issues

3Open PRs

2Releases

816Commits

8Contributors

816 commits · Last activity 2026-03-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 2852026-07-14 · 290

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/s-u/rserve on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 1.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

RSclient

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

RestRserve acumos FastRWeb

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Simon Urbanek

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03

Package metadata

First published: 2006-11-16
Total releases: 31 / 20 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 1.5.0
Download size: 535 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rserve")

Format

Urbanek, S. (2026). Rserve: Versatile R Server (Version 1.8-19) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rserve

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rserve version 1.8-19 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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