R Observatory: Metrics for bignum version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bignum

0.3.2

Arbitrary-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Mathematics

2packages depend

14.7Kdownloads / year

98.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David HallFirst published 2021-05-147 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Classes for storing and manipulating arbitrary-precision integer vectors and high-precision floating-point vectors. These extend the range and precision of the 'integer' and 'double' data types found in R. This package utilizes the 'Boost.Multiprecision' C++ library. It is specifically designed to work well with the 'tidyverse' collection of R packages.

Install

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

install.packages("bignum", 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("davidchall/bignum")

Development version from davidchall/bignum. 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-bignum

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-bignum

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-bignum

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.06

98.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 230 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

14.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,556 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ davidchall/bignum

18Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

112Commits

2Contributors

rarbitrary-precisionbignumvctrs

112 commits · Last activity 2023-05-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-13 · 162026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/davidchall/bignum on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (2)

rlang vctrs

LinkingTo (2)

BH cpp11

Suggests (4)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

David Hall

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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David Hall

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

David Hall

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.2Latest
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.1
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
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0.2.2
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0.2.1
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
2021-05-14
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-14
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 86 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("bignum")

Format

Hall, D. (2023). bignum: Arbitrary-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Mathematics (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bignum

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bignum version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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