R Observatory: Metrics for bigstatsr version 1.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigstatsr

1.6.2Package record

Statistical Tools for Filebacked Big Matrices

10packages dependsuggested by 3

76.4Kdownloads / year

85.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian PrivéCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Easy-to-use, efficient, flexible and scalable statistical tools. Package bigstatsr provides and uses Filebacked Big Matrices via memory-mapping. It provides for instance matrix operations, Principal Component Analysis, sparse linear supervised models, utility functions and more doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty185.

Changes in 1.6.2

Check that parameters ind.row/ind.col are not NULL.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bigstatsr", 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/bigstatsr")

Development version from privefl/bigstatsr. 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-bigstatsr

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-bigstatsr

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-bigstatsr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 10.9 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
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.2

READMEYes · 294 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 52 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%36 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 4%

How these are measured

Downloads

76.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,532 · ~209/day · ~6.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.8K30 days

15.8K90 days

76.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.4K r2u25 autocran11.4K conda_forge185 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

privefl/bigstatsr ↗Account: privefl

180Stars

30Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

985Commits

7Commit identities

big-datarmemory-mapped-fileparallel-computingr-packagestatistical-methodslarge-matrices

985 commits · Last activity 2026-06-05 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.3, ahead of CRAN 1.6.2 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 1782026-07-07 · 180

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/privefl/bigstatsr on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-05

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bigstatsr adds 39 packages (20 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (14)

bigassertr bigparallelr cowplot foreach ggplot2graphicsmethodsps Rcpp rmio RSpectrastatstibbleutils

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo rmio

Suggests (14)

bigmemory bigreadr covr data.table dplyr glmnet hexbin memuse ModelMetrics plotly ppcor RhpcBLASctl spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

29indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 9 · LinkingTo 2

Suggested by 3

Show all 13 packagesHide all 13 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Directional bigsnpr Compositional dartR.base AbSolution neuroim2 tidypopgen HDBRR pchc iPRSue

Suggests, most downloaded first

uwot featR plmmr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Florian Privé

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2017)

Hugues Aschard

Thesis advisor

Michael Blum

Thesis advisor

Releases (19)

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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 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 1 export
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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1.3.1
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2020-11-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pcor
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-12 · diff ↗

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1.2.2
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2020-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
covar_from_df
1.1.4
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2020-02-01 · diff ↗
1.1.2
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1.0.1
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2019-12-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
big_increment, plot_grid
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.9.1
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2019-03-03 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-08-17
0.6.2
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2018-08-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
as_FBM, big_write, plus, sub_bk, theme_bigstatsr, without_downcast_warning
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-02-02
usage restrictions in 'README' were incompatible with a FOSS licence It tried to write in the installed package's location
0.2.4
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2018-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
big_CMSA

added 1 export
get_beta
0.2.3
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0.2.2
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2017-09-02 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2017-09-02
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-02
Total releases: 19 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 793 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bigstatsr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty185.

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 bigstatsr version 1.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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