R Observatory: Metrics for freealg version 1.1-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

freealg

1.1-8Package record

The Free Algebra

5packages depend

8.1Kdownloads / year

98.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The free algebra in R with non-commuting indeterminates. Uses 'disordR' discipline (Hankin, 2022, doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2210.03856). To cite the package in publications please use Hankin (2022) doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2211.04002.

Install

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

install.packages("freealg", 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("RobinHankin/freealg")

Development version from RobinHankin/freealg. 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-freealg

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-freealg

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-freealg

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: 5.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1-8

READMEYes · 343 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1-8Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (2)

The free algebra HTML
adjoint PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,468 · ~22/day · ~678/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

75930 days

1.9K90 days

8.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on485 r2u6 autocran102 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robinhankin/freealg ↗Account: RobinHankin

3Stars

1Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

438Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 438 commits · Last activity 2026-06-11 · Default branch at 1.2-2, ahead of CRAN 1.1-8 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/freealg on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing freealg adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 5.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, disordR 542 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (3)

Rcpp partitions disordR

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

knitr testthat magrittr markdown rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

7indirect

Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

permutations onion clifford freegroup weyl

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-0 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hankin

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.1-8

Releases (10)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-09-23
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 580 KB

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("freealg")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.48550/arxiv.2211.04002.

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 freealg version 1.1-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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