R Observatory: Metrics for doSNOW version 1.0.20

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

doSNOW

1.0.20Package record

Foreach Parallel Adaptor for the 'snow' Package

68packages dependsuggested by 11

161.6Kdownloads / year

60.9%test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Folashade DanielCRAN page ↗

Provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using the snow package of Tierney, Rossini, Li, and Sevcikova.

Changes in 1.0.20

Maintainer change (Folashade Daniel; fdaniel@microsoft.com).

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("doSNOW", 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-dosnow

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-doSNOW

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-doSNOW

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

Found the following calls to attach():
File ‘doSNOW/R/doSNOW.R’:
  attach(exportEnv)
See section ‘Good practice’ in ‘?attach’.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.20

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structured · mentions 1.0.20Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

161.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,101 · ~443/day · ~13.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11.4K30 days

33.4K90 days

161.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.5K r2u7 autocran10.4K conda_forge252 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing doSNOW adds 3 packages (0 with compiled code, 401 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: iterators 293 KB, foreach 88 KB, snow 20 KB.

Depends (5)

R >= 2.5.0foreach iterators snow(>= 0.3.0)utils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

compilerRUnit caret mlbenchrpartparallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

68direct

18indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 65

Suggested by 11

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 20 more dependents and 11 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Folashade Daniel

Maintainer since 1.0.20 (2022) · added in 1.0.20

Microsoft Corporation

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.0.16

Stephen Weston

Author · added in 1.0.14

Previously maintained by Michelle Wallig (1.0.19) and Hong Ooi (1.0.18).

Listed in earlier versions (7)

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REvolution Computing

no longer listed · 1.0.3

Revolution Analytics

no longer listed · 1.0.5 to 1.0.12

Steve Weston

no longer listed · 1.0.11 to 1.0.12

Revolution Analytics

no longer listed · 1.0.14

Rich Calaway

no longer listed · 1.0.14 to 1.0.16

Hong Ooi

no longer listed · 1.0.18

Michelle Wallig

no longer listed · 1.0.19

Releases (13)

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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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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 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-08-21
Total releases: 13 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.5.0
Download size: 7.9 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("doSNOW")

Format

Daniel, F., Corporation, M., & Weston, S. (2022). doSNOW: Foreach Parallel Adaptor for the 'snow' Package (Version 1.0.20) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.doSNOW

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 doSNOW version 1.0.20 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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