R Observatory: Metrics for doRNG version 1.8.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

doRNG

1.8.6.3Package record

Generic Reproducible Parallel Backend for 'foreach' Loops

80packages dependsuggested by 27

430.6Kdownloads / year

89.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emilio L. Sáenz GuillénCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to perform reproducible parallel foreach loops, using independent random streams as generated by L'Ecuyer's combined multiple-recursive generator [L'Ecuyer (1999), DOI:10.1287/opre.47.1.159]. It enables to easily convert standard '%dopar%' loops into fully reproducible loops, independently of the number of workers, the task scheduling strategy, or the chosen parallel environment and associated foreach backend.

Install

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

install.packages("doRNG", 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("emilioluissaenzguillen/doRNG")

Development version from emilioluissaenzguillen/doRNG. 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-dorng

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-doRNG

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-doRNG

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: 1.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-23
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-02
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-01
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.8.6.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.8.6.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20% with a bibliography file

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

430.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #618 · ~1.2K/day · ~35.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.7K30 days

94.4K90 days

430.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on12K r2u5 autocran65.3K conda_forge304 bioconda222 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

emilioluissaenzguillen/dorng ↗Account: emilioluissaenzguillenFork of renozao/doRNG

0Stars

0Forks

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-02-07

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/emilioluissaenzguillen/dorng on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing doRNG adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 634 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: iterators 293 KB, digest 231 KB, foreach 88 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.0.0foreach rngtools

Imports (3)

statsutilsiterators

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

doParallel doMPI doRedis rbenchmark knitr rbibutils (>= 1.3)testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

80direct

52indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 77

Suggested by 27

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 32 more dependents and 27 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Emilio L. Sáenz Guillén

Maintainer since 1.8.6.3 (2026)

Renaud Gaujoux

Author

Previously maintained by Renaud Gaujoux (1.0.2 to 1.8.6.2).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Sáenz Guillén

no longer listed · 1.8.6.3

Releases (21)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.8.6.3Latest
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2026-02-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.8.6.2
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2025-04-02 · diff ↗
1.8.6.1
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2025-01-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-16
1.8.6
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2023-01-16 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2022-12-19
maintainer is unresponsive
1.8.3
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2022-12-19 · diff ↗
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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-01-27
1.8.2
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2020-01-27 · diff ↗

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orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2020-01-20
maintainer was unresponsive
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.7.1
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2018-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.6.6
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2017-04-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.6
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2014-03-07 · diff ↗
1.5.5
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2013-09-24 · diff ↗
1.5.4
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2013-09-19 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.5.3
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2013-03-12 · diff ↗
1.5
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2012-11-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
RNGscope, RNGseq, doRNG, doRNGseed, setRNG
1.4.5
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2012-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
write.bib
1.4.1
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2012-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
doRNGversion, setRNG
1.3
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2012-05-22 · diff ↗
1.2.6
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2012-04-17 · diff ↗
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
1.2.2
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2012-03-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
CMRGseed
1.2.1
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2012-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
write.bib
1.1
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2011-11-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
.RNGgenSeed, .rstream.get.seed, .rstream.set.seed

added 2 exports
CMRGseed, RNGscope
R
R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
1.0.2
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2011-10-24
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-10-24
Total releases: 21 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 20 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("doRNG")

Format

Sáenz Guillén, E. L., & Gaujoux, R. (2026). doRNG: Generic Reproducible Parallel Backend for 'foreach' Loops (Version 1.8.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.doRNG

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 doRNG version 1.8.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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