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1.42

Solvers for Initial Value Problems of Differential Equations ('ODE', 'DAE', 'DDE')

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Overview

About
Maintained by Thomas PetzoldtFirst published 2008-06-0161 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions that solve initial value problems of a system of first-order ordinary differential equations ('ODE'), of partial differential equations ('PDE'), of differential algebraic equations ('DAE'), and of delay differential equations. The functions provide an interface to the FORTRAN functions 'lsoda', 'lsodar', 'lsode', 'lsodes' of the 'ODEPACK' collection, to the FORTRAN functions 'dvode', 'zvode' and 'daspk' and a C-implementation of solvers of the 'Runge-Kutta' family with fixed or variable time steps. The package contains routines designed for solving 'ODEs' resulting from 1-D, 2-D and 3-D partial differential equations ('PDE') that have been converted to 'ODEs' by numerical differencing.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 5.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64
Code health
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Tests · ratio 0.00
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Coverage
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Documentation

Documentation
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Examples that run
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Documented parameters
98%
Return-value docs
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References docs
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Repository

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Dependencies

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2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
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Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published
2008-06-01
Total releases
61 / 18 yrs
License
GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data
5.1 KB / 1 file
Download size
1.9 MB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet

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Petzoldt, T., Brown, P. N., Byrne, G. D., Hairer, E., Hindmarsh, A. C., Moler, C., Petzold, L. R., Saad, Y., Setzer, R. W., Soetaert, K., & Ulrich, C. W. (2026). deSolve: Solvers for Initial Value Problems of Differential Equations ('ODE', 'DAE', 'DDE') (Version 1.42) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.deSolve

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for deSolve version 1.42 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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