R Observatory: Metrics for caTools version 1.18.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

caTools

1.18.4Package record

Tools: Moving Window Statistics, GIF, Base64, ROC AUC, etc

32packages dependsuggested by 5

1.6Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael DietzeCRAN page ↗

Contains several basic utility functions including: moving (rolling, running) window statistic functions, read/write for GIF and ENVI binary files, fast calculation of AUC, LogitBoost classifier, base64 encoder/decoder, round-off-error-free sum and cumsum, etc.

Install

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

install.packages("caTools", 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-catools

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-caTools

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-caTools

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: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 1.18.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 53%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #285 · ~4.2K/day · ~129.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

132.5K30 days

403.1K90 days

1.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on40.4K r2u181 autocran286.9K conda_forge28.7K bioconda16.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing caTools adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 11 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bitops 11 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

bitops

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

MASSrpart

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

32direct

293indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 30

Suggested by 5

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

caretEnsemble xgxr HandTill2001 ursa RcppColMetric

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michael Dietze

Maintainer · added in 1.18.3

Jarek Tuszynski

Author

Maintainer since 1.13 (2012), previously Jarek Tuszynski (1.0 to 1.12)

Releases (27)

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1.18.4Latest
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base64decode, base64encode, colAUC, combs, cumsumexact, LogitBoost, predict.LogitBoost, read.ENVI, read.gif, runmad, runmax, runmean, runmin, runquantile, runsd, sample.split, sumexact, trapz, write.ENVI, write.gif
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Package metadata

First published: 2005-06-17
Total releases: 27 / 21 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 64 KB

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Format

Dietze, M., & Tuszynski, J. (2026). caTools: Tools: Moving Window Statistics, GIF, Base64, ROC AUC, etc (Version 1.18.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.caTools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for caTools version 1.18.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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