R Observatory: Metrics for bigreadr version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigreadr

0.2.5

Read Large Text Files

5packages depend

62.5Kdownloads / year

90.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian PrivéFirst published 2018-07-3012 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Read large text files by splitting them in smaller files. Package 'bigreadr' also provides some convenient wrappers around fread() and fwrite() from package 'data.table'.

Install

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

install.packages("bigreadr", 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("privefl/bigreadr")

Development version from privefl/bigreadr. 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-bigreadr

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-bigreadr

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-bigreadr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.94

90.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-20
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-08-18
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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
OK2026-06-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 4 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 76 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

62.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,926 · ~171/day · ~5.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4K30 days

10.7K90 days

62.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on837 r2u51 autocran10.8K conda_forge61 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ privefl/bigreadr

43Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

5Contributors

r-packageread-csvlarge-dataset

98 commits · Last activity 2022-12-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 432026-07-07 · 43

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/privefl/bigreadr on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

bigassertr data.table parallelly Rcpputils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

spelling testthat covr RSQLite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

8indirect

RapidoPGS bigsnpr Directional bigstatsr pchc

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Florian Privé

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Florian Privé

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

12 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.5Latest
2022-12-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.4
2021-04-10 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2021-02-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
2019-10-18 · diff ↗
0.1.11
2019-10-16 · diff ↗
0.1.10
2019-09-17 · diff ↗
0.1.9
2019-09-07 · diff ↗
0.1.7
2019-08-01 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2019-07-04 · diff ↗

Show 5 earlier events

0.1.5
2019-06-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.3
2018-08-13 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-07-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-30
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 124 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bigreadr")

Format

Privé, F. (2022). bigreadr: Read Large Text Files (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bigreadr

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 bigreadr version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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