R Observatory: Metrics for caracas version 2.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

caracas

2.1.1

Computer Algebra

1packages depend

9.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

1/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mikkel Meyer AndersenFirst published 2020-01-2610 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computer algebra via the 'SymPy' library (https://www.sympy.org/). This makes it possible to solve equations symbolically, find symbolic integrals, symbolic sums and other important quantities.

Install

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

install.packages("caracas", 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-cas/caracas")

Development version from r-cas/caracas. 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-caracas

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-caracas

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-caracas

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

Health

CRAN checks

12NOTE1OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
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NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
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NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 6.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
1 OK · 12 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
1 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
4 OK · 10 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 16%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

9.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,175 · ~25/day · ~774/mo

Releases R versions

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36730 days

1.5K90 days

9.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-cas/caracas

33Stars

2Forks

31Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

425Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 425 commits · Last activity 2026-01-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-25 · 262026-07-19 · 33

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-cas/caracas on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0methods

Imports (4)

reticulateMatrixdoBy magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

Ryacas testthat knitr rmarkdown tinytex magick pdftools qpdf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

symSEM

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Søren Højsgaard

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (2)

Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Søren Højsgaard

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-26
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 189 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Numerical Mathematics

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Format

Andersen, M. M., & Højsgaard, S. (2023). caracas: Computer Algebra (Version 2.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.caracas

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for caracas version 2.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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