R Observatory: Metrics for itertools version 0.1-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

itertools

0.1-3Package record

Iterator Tools

16packages dependsuggested by 3

200.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steve WestonCRAN page ↗

Various tools for creating iterators, many patterned after functions in the Python itertools module, and others patterned after functions in the 'snow' package.

Changes in 0.1-3

added "mode" argument to ichunk function
added iRNGStream and iRNGSubStream functions which could

be useful for parallel random number generation.

added ireaddf function for reading data frames from files
added writedf.combiner function for writing data frames to files
added iarray function for creating iterators over arrays
add ibreak function for creating iterators that can be stopped

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("itertools", 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-itertools

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-itertools

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-itertools

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Steve Weston <stephen.b.weston@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Steve",
                      family = "Weston",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "stephen.b.weston@gmail.com"),
               person(given = "Hadley",
                      family = "Wickham",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 55 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1-3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1-3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%23 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 24%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

200.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #952 · ~549/day · ~16.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14.8K30 days

43.1K90 days

200.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u2 autocran8.2K conda_forge250 bioconda146 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing itertools adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 293 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: iterators 293 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.14.0iterators

Imports (1)

parallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

foreach

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

42indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 15

Suggested by 3

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Suggests, most downloaded first

plyr doMPI NPflow

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Steve Weston

Hadley Wickham

Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2010)

Releases (2)

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0.1-3Latest
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2014-03-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
irecord, ireplay, iRNGStream, iRNGSubStream, ireaddf, writedf.combiner, iarray, ibreak
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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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2010-01-14
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2010-01-14
Total releases: 2 / 16 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 21 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for itertools version 0.1-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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