R Observatory: Metrics for VectrixDB version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VectrixDB

1.1.2Package record

Lightweight Vector Database with Embedded Machine Learning Models

0packages dependsuggested by 1

1.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kwadwo Daddy Nyame Owusu BoakyeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A lightweight vector database for text retrieval in R with embedded machine learning models and no external API (Application Programming Interface) keys. Supports dense and hybrid search, optional HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) approximate nearest-neighbor indexing, faceted filters with ACL (Access Control List) metadata, command-line tools, and a local dashboard built with 'shiny'. The HNSW method is described by Malkov and Yashunin (2018) doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2889473.

Install

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

install.packages("VectrixDB", 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("knowusuboaky/vectrixdb-r")

Development version from knowusuboaky/vectrixdb-r. 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-vectrixdb

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-VectrixDB

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-VectrixDB

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: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.2

READMEYes · 329 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 130 (22 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%23 never run
Exported functions with examples: 22%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 38%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,526 · ~5/day · ~148/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25130 days

72690 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on51 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

knowusuboaky/vectrixdb-r ↗Account: knowusuboaky

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-02-18

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/knowusuboaky/vectrixdb-r on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-18, before release 1.1.2 (2026-02-20)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VectrixDB adds 31 packages (20 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, RSQLite 4.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

R6 jsonlite digestMatrixtext2vec stopwordstoolsutilsstatsRSQLite DBI

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat shiny plumber pkgdown RcppAnnoy reticulate rappdirs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

RAGFlowChainR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kwadwo Daddy Nyame Owusu Boakye

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.2 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.2Latest
record
2026-02-20 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-20
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 148 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("VectrixDB")

Format

Owusu Boakye, K. D. N. (2026). VectrixDB: Lightweight Vector Database with Embedded Machine Learning Models (Version 1.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VectrixDB

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 VectrixDB version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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