R Observatory: Metrics for matlabr version 1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

matlabr

1.5.2Package record

An Interface for MATLAB using System Calls

1packages dependsuggested by 2

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John MuschelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides users to call MATLAB from using the "system" command. Allows users to submit lines of code or MATLAB m files. This is in comparison to 'R.matlab', which creates a MATLAB server.

Changes in 1.5.2

Added single threaded mode in run_matlab_script.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("matlabr", 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("muschellij2/matlabr")

Development version from muschellij2/matlabr. 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-matlabr

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-matlabr

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-matlabr

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: 54 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.2

READMEYes · 59 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 44%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,159 · ~10/day · ~315/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36430 days

1K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on92 r2u81 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

muschellij2/matlabr ↗Account: muschellij2

13Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

65Commits

2Commit identities

65 commits · Last activity 2025-08-11 · Default branch at 1.6.0, ahead of CRAN 1.5.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

Stars over time

2025-08-24 · 132026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/muschellij2/matlabr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing matlabr adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DICOMread

Suggests, most downloaded first

emuR epca

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Muschelli

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2015)

Releases (5)

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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
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.5.2Latest
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2018-08-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
add_gen_path, add_path, gen_path
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-02-01 · diff ↗
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2017-10-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-05-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1
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2015-10-21

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-21
Total releases: 5 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 6.1 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("matlabr")

Format

Muschelli, J. (2018). matlabr: An Interface for MATLAB using System Calls (Version 1.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.matlabr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for matlabr version 1.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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