R Observatory: Metrics for bbotk version 1.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bbotk

1.12.0

Black-Box Optimization Toolkit

17packages depend

226.5Kdownloads / year

70.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc BeckerFirst published 2020-07-2437 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Features highly configurable search spaces via the 'paradox' package and optimizes every user-defined objective function. The package includes several optimization algorithms e.g. Random Search, Iterated Racing, Bayesian Optimization (in 'mlr3mbo') and Hyperband (in 'mlr3hyperband'). bbotk is the base package of 'mlr3tuning', 'mlr3fselect' and 'miesmuschel'.

Install

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

install.packages("bbotk", 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("mlr-org/bbotk")

Development version from mlr-org/bbotk. 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-bbotk

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-bbotk

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-bbotk

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.62

70.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

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
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-21
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 371 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 21%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

226.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #794 · ~620/day · ~18.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19.1K30 days

64.1K90 days

226.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on26.5K r2u47 autocran15.6K conda_forge67 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ mlr-org/bbotk

26Stars

11Forks

4Open issues

7Open PRs

37Releases

793Commits

14Contributors

machine-learningdata-scienceblack-box-optimizationoptimizationhyperparameter-tuningrmlr3bbotk

License LGPL-3.0 · 793 commits · Last activity 2026-08-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-28 · 242026-07-07 · 26

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlr-org/bbotk on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (5)

lintrAirEditorConfigVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-11-26

claudecursorgemini

Most recent: gemini on 2026-03-18

Evidence

claude: on 2025-11-26 · evidence B, D
cursor: on 2026-03-05 · evidence D
agents-md: on 2026-03-18 · evidence D
gemini: on 2026-03-18 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.1.0paradox

Imports (8)

checkmate cli data.table lgrmethodsmlr3misc moocore R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

adagio emoa GenSA irace knitr mirai nloptr processx progressr redux RhpcBLASctl rush testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

30indirect

MicrobiomeStat counterfactuals miesmuschel mlr3fselect mlr3hyperband mlr3mbo mlr3tuning mlr3verse mlrintermbo sense CryptRndTest DoubleML mlr3pipelines mlr3spatiotempcv mlr3tuningspaces mlr3viz xtdml

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Marc Becker

Maintainer, Author

Authors (5)

Maintainer, Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (1)

Olaf Mersmann

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

1.12.0Latest
2026-07-17 · current release · diff ↗
1.11.0
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1.10.1
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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1.8.1
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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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0.2.0
2020-07-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-24
Total releases: 37 / 6 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 173 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("bbotk")

Format

Becker, M., Binder, M., Bischl, B., Lang, M., Mersmann, O., & Richter, J. (2026). bbotk: Black-Box Optimization Toolkit (Version 1.12.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bbotk

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bbotk version 1.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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