R Observatory: Metrics for gsl version 2.1-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gsl

2.1-9Package record

Wrapper for the Gnu Scientific Library

47packages dependsuggested by 17

329.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

An R wrapper for some of the functionality of the Gnu Scientific Library.

Changes in 2.1-9

replace EXTPTR_PTR with R_ExternalPtrAddr
replace EXTPTR_TAG with R_ExternalPtrTag

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gsl", 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/gsl")

Development version from RobinHankin/gsl. 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-gsl

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-gsl

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-gsl

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1-9

READMEYes · 209 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1-9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 33includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%30 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 9%
Help pages citing references: 97%

Vignettes (1)

A vignette for the gsl package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

329.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #671 · ~904/day · ~27.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28.7K30 days

81.1K90 days

329.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.5K r2u4 autocran55.5K conda_forge285 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robinhankin/gsl ↗Account: RobinHankin

19Stars

10Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

4Commit identities

87 commits · Last activity 2026-04-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.1-10, ahead of CRAN 2.1-9 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 110
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 172026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/gsl on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

47direct

164indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 43

Suggested by 17

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

spatstat.random

and 16 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer since 1.2-19 (2004)

Andrew Clausen

Contributor · added in 1.8-4

multimin functionality

Duncan Murdoch

Contributor · added in 1.6-0

qrng functions

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Jeffrey Racine

no longer listed · 1.9-2 to 1.9-3

Hankin

no longer listed · 2.1-5 to 2.1-9

Releases (30)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1-9Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1-7.1
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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
2.1-6
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2019-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[^\\.]

added 272 exports
airy_Ai, airy_Ai_deriv, airy_Ai_deriv_scaled, airy_Ai_scaled, airy_Bi, airy_Bi_deriv, airy_Bi_deriv_scaled, airy_Bi_scaled, airy_zero_Ai, airy_zero_Ai_deriv, airy_zero_Bi, airy_zero_Bi_deriv, atanint, bessel_I0, bessel_i0_scaled, bessel_I0_scaled, bessel_I1, bessel_i1_scaled, bessel_I1_scaled, bessel_i2_scaled, bessel_il_scaled, bessel_il_scaled_array, bessel_In, bessel_In_array, bessel_In_scaled, bessel_In_scaled_array, bessel_Inu, bessel_Inu_scaled, bessel_j0, bessel_J0 and 242 more
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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 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 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06
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R 2.1.0 released · 2005-04-18
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R 2.0.0 released · 2004-10-04

Package metadata

First published: 2004-11-17
Total releases: 30 / 22 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Download size: 227 KB

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics Optimization and Mathematical Programming

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("gsl")

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gsl version 2.1-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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