R Observatory: Metrics for bigBits version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigBits

1.4Package record

Perform Boolean Operations on Large Numbers

1packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl WitthoftCRAN page ↗

A set of Boolean operators which accept integers of any size, in any base from 2 to 36, including 2's complement format, and perform actions like "AND," "OR", "NOT", "SHIFTR/L" etc. The output can be in any base specified. A direct base to base converter is included.

Install

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

install.packages("bigBits", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-bigbits

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-bigBits

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 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 1.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,240 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26630 days

77490 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on99 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bigBits adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 810 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rmpfr 647 KB, gmp 163 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

Rmpfr gmpmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FunWithNumbers

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Carl Witthoft

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2023)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-06-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-19
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Download size: 21 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bigBits")

Format

Witthoft, C. (2025). bigBits: Perform Boolean Operations on Large Numbers (Version 1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bigBits

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 bigBits version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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