R Observatory: Metrics for aprof version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aprof

0.4.1Package record

Amdahl's Profiler, Directed Optimization Made Easy

0packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marco D. VisserCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Assists the evaluation of whether and where to focus code optimization, using Amdahl's law and visual aids based on line profiling. Amdahl's profiler organizes profiling output files (including memory profiling) in a visually appealing way. It is meant to help to balance development vs. execution time by helping to identify the most promising sections of code to optimize and projecting potential gains. The package is an addition to R's standard profiling tools and is not a wrapper for them.

Install

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

install.packages("aprof", 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("MarcoDVisser/aprof")

Development version from MarcoDVisser/aprof. 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-aprof

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-aprof

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-aprof

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Marco D. Visser <marco.d.visser@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Marco", "D."),
                    family = "Visser",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "marco.d.visser@gmail.com")
as necessary.

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘testthat’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,195 · ~15/day · ~464/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60630 days

2.1K90 days

5.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u24 autocran147 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

marcodvisser/aprof ↗Account: MarcoDVisser

21Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

167Commits

3Commit identities

167 commits · Last activity 2025-02-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 70
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-07-04 · 212026-08-04 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/marcodvisser/aprof on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2018-05-17

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aprof adds 24 packages (11 with compiled code, 6.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, testthat 814 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

graphicsgrDevicesstatstestthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Marco D. Visser

Maintainer since 0.1 (2013)

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-31
Total releases: 9 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 14 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("aprof")

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for aprof version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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