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Fast FFT and DCT Based on the FFTW Library

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Overview

About

Provides a simple and efficient wrapper around the fastest Fourier transform in the west (FFTW) library http://www.fftw.org/.

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Health

CRAN checks
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Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64
Status changes
  • OK13 OK2026-08-05
  • NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
  • OK14 OK2026-03-10
Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.0-9
READMEYes · 49 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
2
Examples that run
100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
50%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
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Help pages citing references
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Downloads

50.5K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #2,181 · ~138/day · ~4.2K/mo
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Dependencies

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0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fftw adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)
R >= 3.0.0
Imports (0)
none
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
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Depends 1 · Imports 8
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People & History

People (3)
Contributor, Maintainer since 1.0-4 (2017) · added in 1.0-4
Author · added in 1.0-4
Contributor · added in 1.0-4

Previously maintained by Olaf Mersmann (1.0-1 to 1.0-3).

Listed in earlier versions (1)
Sebastian Krey Uwe Ligges Olaf Mersmann
no longer listed · 1.0-1 to 1.0-3
Releases (10)

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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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
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    R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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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 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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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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    2010-01-29
  • R
    R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published
2010-01-29
Total releases
10 / 16 yrs
License
GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.0.0
Download size
42 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fftw")
Ligges, U., Krey, S., & Mersmann, O. (2024). fftw: Fast FFT and DCT Based on the FFTW Library (Version 1.0-9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fftw

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

Cite the R Observatory

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fftw version 1.0-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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