R Observatory: Metrics for kindling version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kindling

0.3.2

Higher-Level Interface of 'torch' Package to Auto-Train Neural Networks

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

12.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua MarieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a higher-level interface to the 'torch' package for defining, training, and fine-tuning neural networks through code generation. The package supports several architectures, including feedforward (multi-layer perceptron) and recurrent neural networks (RNN, LSTM, GRU), while reducing boilerplate 'torch' code. Model training methods also bridge to machine learning frameworks in R, particularly the 'tidymodels' ecosystem, including 'parsnip' model specifications, workflows, recipes, and tuning tools.

Changes in 0.3.2

Bug fixes

"linear" used as an activations/output_activation value no longer crashes at training time. It was previously resolved to torch::nnf_linear() (an affine transform requiring its own weight/bias), instead of behaving as an identity/no-op activation. "linear" now consistently maps to identity() (#21).

Documentation

Added missing @examples for act_funs(), args(), and early_stop().
Fixed the {tidymodels} example: loading Ionosphere via box::use(mlbench[Ionosphere]) failed because {mlbench} does not export its datasets through NAMESPACE/LazyData. The example now uses data(Ionosphere, package = "mlbench") instead.

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Usage examples from README gets transferred to vignettes/kindling.Rmd.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("kindling", 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("joshuamarie/kindling")

Development version from joshuamarie/kindling. 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-kindling

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-kindling

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-kindling

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: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.2

READMEYes · 356 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 45 (27 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 22%4 run in a plain check · 11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 7%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,201 · ~7/day · ~211/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35630 days

84690 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on69 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

joshuamarie/kindling ↗Account: joshuamarie

28Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

309Commits

3Commit identities

neural-networksrtidymodelstorch

309 commits · Last activity 2026-09-26 · +3.7% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 282026-10-07 · 28

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshuamarie/kindling on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Research and citation (1)

JOSS paper

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-03
Commits: at least 10 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 7 from outside contributors, first on 2026-08-03, 7 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 57 commits · Aug 2026
Claude Sonnet 52 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kindling adds 106 packages (52 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

purrr torch rlang cli glue vctrs parsnip tibble tidyr dplyrstatsNeuralNetTools ggplot2 tune dials hardhat lifecycle coro

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

testthat magrittr box vip recipes workflows rsample yardstick mlbench modeldata knitr rmarkdown DiceDesign lhs sfd covr fansi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Joshua Marie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Antoine Soetewey

Author · added in 0.3.0

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.3.2Latest
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2026-07-10 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.1
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2026-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
vi_model

added 2 exports
autoplot_diagnostics, plot_diagnostics
0.3.0
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2026-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
.i, .in, .is_output, .layer, .out, early_stop, new_act_fn, nn_arch, nn_module_generator, train_nn, train_nn_wrapper, train_nnsnip
0.2.0
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2026-02-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2026-01-31
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-31
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: cran.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 333 KB

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citation("kindling")

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kindling version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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