R Observatory: Metrics for bigANNOY version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigANNOY

0.3.0

Approximate k-Nearest Neighbour Search for 'bigmemory' Matrices with Annoy

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

80.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederic BertrandFirst published 2026-04-011 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Approximate Euclidean k-nearest neighbour search routines that operate on 'bigmemory::big.matrix' data through Annoy indexes created with 'RcppAnnoy'. The package builds persistent on-disk indexes plus sidecar metadata from streamed 'big.matrix' rows, supports euclidean, angular, Manhattan, and dot-product Annoy metrics, and can either return in-memory results or stream neighbour indices and distances into destination 'bigmemory' matrices. Explicit index life cycle helpers, stronger metadata validation, descriptor-aware file-backed workflows, and benchmark helpers are also included.

Install

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

install.packages("bigANNOY", 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("fbertran/bigANNOY")

Development version from fbertran/bigANNOY. 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-bigannoy

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-bigANNOY

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

80.3%

Coverage · measured lines

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
OK2026-04-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-02
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 470 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,721 · ~5/day · ~152/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fbertran/bigannoy

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9Commits

1Contributors

9 commits · Last activity 2026-03-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fbertran/bigannoy on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

methodsRcpp RcppAnnoy

LinkingTo (4)

BH bigmemory Rcpp RcppAnnoy

Suggests (4)

bigmemory knitr litedown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Frederic Bertrand

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Frederic Bertrand

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
2026-04-01 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-01
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 99 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bigANNOY")

Format

Bertrand, F. (2026). bigANNOY: Approximate k-Nearest Neighbour Search for 'bigmemory' Matrices with Annoy (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bigANNOY

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bigANNOY version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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