R Observatory: Metrics for bit version 4.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bit

4.6.0Package record

Classes and Methods for Fast Memory-Efficient Boolean Selections

8packages dependsuggested by 3

9.1Mdownloads / year

72.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael ChiricoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provided are classes for boolean and skewed boolean vectors, fast boolean methods, fast unique and non-unique integer sorting, fast set operations on sorted and unsorted sets of integers, and foundations for ff (range index, compression, chunked processing).

Changes in 4.6.0

BUG FIXES

1. Corrected the function prototype for a C function, #36. Thanks @aitap for investigating and suggesting a fix.

1. chunk() works if {ff} is loaded but not attached, #3. Thanks @dschlaep for the report.

NOTES

1. After creating, developing, and maintaining {bit} for about 16 years, Jens Oehlschlägel has decided to step down as maintainer of the package. As with {bit64}, Michael Chirico will take over in this duty. Thank you Jens for creating such a wonderful & important part of the R ecosystem!

I don't have any major plans for new features, and mostly hope to keep the package running and up to date. Contributors most welcome! I am also trying to freshen up the code base to make contribution easier.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bit", 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("r-lib/bit")

Development version from r-lib/bit. 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-bit

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-bit

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-bit

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: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-18
OK13 OK2026-09-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-25
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.6.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 4.6.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 65includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%61 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #94 · ~24.9K/day · ~756K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

692.5K30 days

2M90 days

9.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on152.5K r2u173 autocran1.4M conda_forge784 bioconda5.1K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/bit ↗Organization: r-lib

13Stars

1Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

120Commits

4Commit identities

120 commits · Last activity 2025-05-06 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.6.99, ahead of CRAN 4.6.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 136
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-13 · 122026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/bit on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bit adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat roxygen2 knitr markdown rmarkdown microbenchmark bit64 ff

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

2,079indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 6

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bit64 ff Cyclops FLightR BGData ETLUtils symDMatrix TOC

Suggests, most downloaded first

data.table bamlss SpaDES.tools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Michael Chirico

Author, Maintainer since 4.6.0 (2025) · added in 4.6.0

Jens Oehlschlägel

Author · added in 1.1-13

Brian Ripley

Contributor · added in 1.1-15

Previously maintained by Jens Oehlschlägel (1.1-1 to 4.5.0.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jens Oehlschl\xE4gel

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 1.1-8

Releases (26)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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removed 2 exports
copy, reverse

added 2 exports
copy_vector, reverse_vector
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removed 90 exports
clone.default, clone.list, !.bit, !.bitwhich, !=.bit, !=.bitwhich, &.bit, &.bitwhich, [.bit, [[.bit, [[<-.bit, [<-.bit, |.bit, |.bitwhich, ==.bit, ==.bitwhich, all.bit, all.bitwhich, all.ri, any.bit, any.bitwhich, any.ri, as.bit.bit, as.bit.bitwhich, as.bit.double, as.bit.integer, as.bit.logical, as.bit.ri, as.bit.which, as.bitwhich.bit and 60 more

added 76 exports
!=.booltype, &.booltype, ==.booltype, |.booltype, .BITS, all.booltype, any.booltype, anyNA.booltype, as.booltype, as.ri, bit_anyDuplicated, bit_duplicated, bit_in, bit_intersect, bit_rangediff, bit_setdiff, bit_setequal, bit_sort, bit_sort_unique, bit_sumDuplicated, bit_symdiff, bit_union, bit_unique, bitsort, bitwhich_representation, booltype, booltypes, c.booltype, chunks, copy and 46 more
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2020-01-13
check errors were not corrected
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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setattr, setattributes, unattr, clone.default, clone.list, still.identical, as.bit, as.bitwhich, as.which, xor, physical, virtual, clone, ramsort, shellsort, quicksort, mergesort, radixsort, keysort, ramorder, shellorder, quickorder, mergeorder, radixorder, keyorder, ramsortorder, shellsortorder, quicksortorder, mergesortorder, radixsortorder and 119 more
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2008-10-09
Total releases: 26 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 297 KB

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Chirico, M., Oehlschlägel, J., & Ripley, B. (2025). bit: Classes and Methods for Fast Memory-Efficient Boolean Selections (Version 4.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bit

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bit version 4.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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