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

1.9Kdownloads / year

12.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua MarieFirst published 2026-01-315 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.41

12.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

18

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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 · 356 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 44%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 7%

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,876 · ~5/day · ~157/mo

Releases R versions

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19930 days

78090 days

1.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ joshuamarie/kindling

27Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

287Commits

3Contributors

neural-networksrtidymodelstorch

287 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · -3.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 282026-08-06 · 27

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/joshuamarie/kindling on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

JOSS paper

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Joshua Marie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Joshua Marie

Author, Maintainer

Antoine Soetewey

Author · added in 0.3.0

Package Timeline

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

0.3.2Latest
2026-07-10 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.1
2026-07-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
2026-03-03 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2026-02-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-01-31
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("kindling")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kindling version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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