R Observatory: Metrics for gsl version 2.1-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gsl

2.1-9

Wrapper for the Gnu Scientific Library

64packages depend

356.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinFirst published 2004-11-1730 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 209 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 9%
References docs: 97%

Downloads

356.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #720 · ~977/day · ~29.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23.4K30 days

75.4K90 days

356.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.7K r2u15 autocran53.9K conda_forge215 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ robinhankin/gsl

19Stars

10Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

4Contributors

87 commits · Last activity 2026-04-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 172026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/gsl on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

64direct

167indirect

and 16 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Andrew Clausen

Contributor · added in 2.1-5

Duncan Murdoch

Contributor · added in 2.1-5

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Robin K. S. Hankin; qrng functions by Duncan Murdoch

no longer listed · 1.6-0 to 1.9-10.3

multimin by Andrew Clausen

no longer listed · 1.8-4 to 1.9-10.3

multimin by Andrew Clausen; spline functions by Jeffrey Racine

no longer listed · 1.9-2 to 1.9-3

Hankin

no longer listed · 2.1-5 to 2.1-9

Package Timeline

30 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1-9Latest
2025-11-10 · current release · diff ↗
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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
2.1-8
2023-01-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1-7.1
2021-11-02 · diff ↗
2.1-7
2021-09-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1-6
2019-03-25 · diff ↗
2.1-5
2019-03-15 · 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

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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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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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2009-03-30 · diff ↗
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
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2007-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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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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1.3-1
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2004-11-22 · diff ↗
1.2-20
2004-11-18 · diff ↗
1.2-19
2004-11-17
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics Optimization and Mathematical Programming

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citation("gsl")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gsl version 2.1-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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