R Observatory: Metrics for madness version 0.2.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

madness

0.2.9Package record

Automatic Differentiation of Multivariate Operations

1packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

98.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steven E. PavCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An object that supports automatic differentiation of matrix- and multidimensional-valued functions with respect to multidimensional independent variables. Automatic differentiation is via 'forward accumulation'.

Install

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

install.packages("madness", 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("shabbychef/madness")

Development version from shabbychef/madness. 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-madness

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-madness

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-madness

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: 3.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-18
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.9

READMEYes · 1,189 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 34 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 9%

Vignettes (1)

Asymptotic Distribution of the Markowitz Portfolio PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,167 · ~11/day · ~344/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47530 days

1.2K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u3 autocran31 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

shabbychef/madness ↗Account: shabbychef

31Stars

0Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

153Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-3.0 · 153 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-01-18 · 302026-07-07 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shabbychef/madness on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (2)

.gitattributesSubmodules

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing madness adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 175 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: expm 145 KB, matrixcalc 30 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (4)

Matrixmatrixcalc expmmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat dplyr tidyr lubridate SharpeR sandwich formatR knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

graphPAF

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Steven E. Pav

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Steven E.

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.9

Releases (11)

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0.2.9Latest
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2026-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.8
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.7
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.6
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2019-04-19 · diff ↗
0.2.5
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2018-08-29 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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2018-08-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-02-16

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0.2.3
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2018-02-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-02-12
check errors were not corrected despite reminders ATLAS, MKL, OpenBLAS
0.2.2
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2017-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.1
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2017-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
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2016-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
to_objective
0.1.0
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2015-12-15
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-15
Total releases: 11 / 11 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 74 KB / 2 files
Download size: 720 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("madness")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for madness version 0.2.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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