R Observatory: Metrics for matrixStats version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

matrixStats

1.5.0Package record

Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors)

298packages dependsuggested by 29

7.8Mdownloads / year

86.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

High-performing functions operating on rows and columns of matrices, e.g. col / rowMedians(), col / rowRanks(), and col / rowSds(). Functions optimized per data type and for subsetted calculations such that both memory usage and processing time is minimized. There are also optimized vector-based methods, e.g. binMeans(), madDiff() and weightedMedian().

Changes in 1.5.0

Significant Changes

Package now requires R (>= 3.4.0) [2017-04-21], because the next release of R will have stricter C header requirements that are not backward compatible with older versions of R.

Deprecated and Defunct

The hidden R options for deescalating the error for using useNames = NA to a warning has been removed; useNames = NA is now always an error.
Calling colRanks() and rowRanks() without explicitly specifying argument ties.method is deprecated since version 1.3.0 [2024-04-10]. If not explicitly specified, a deprecation warning is now produced every 10:th call not specifying the ties.method argument.

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Bug Fixes

The error message of colTabulates() and rowTabulates() asserting that double values are passed, reported on the class of the input data, not the storage type.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("matrixStats", 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("HenrikBengtsson/matrixStats")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/matrixStats. 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-matrixstats

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-matrixStats

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-matrixStats

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: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-29
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 39 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%23 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 62%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #86 · ~21.2K/day · ~645.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

608.3K30 days

2.2M90 days

7.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on104.8K r2u138 autocran664.8K conda_forge27.8K bioconda3.1K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

henrikbengtsson/matrixstats ↗Account: HenrikBengtsson

216Stars

37Forks

54Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

1,941Commits

16Commit identities

rpackagematrixvectorperformancecran

1,941 commits · Last activity 2026-09-07 · +0.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.0-9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 74%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 20
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 2122026-10-15 · 216

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/matrixstats 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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing matrixStats adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

utilsbase64enc ggplot2 knitr markdown microbenchmark R.devices R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

298direct

627indirect

Depends 17 · Imports 281

Suggested by 29

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 250 more dependents and 29 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (14)

Henrik Bengtsson

Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze

Contributor · added in 0.57.0

Hector Corrada Bravo

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Robert Gentleman

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Jan Gleixner

Contributor · added in 0.58.0

Peter Hickey

Contributor · added in 0.53.1

Ola Hossjer

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Harris Jaffee

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Dongcan Jiang

Contributor · added in 0.14.1

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Peter Langfelder

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Brian Montgomery

Contributor · added in 0.55.0

Angelina Panagopoulou

Contributor · added in 0.60.0

Hugh Parsonage

Contributor · added in 0.58.0

Jakob Peder Pettersen

Contributor · added in 0.60.1

Releases (59)

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allocVector, allocMatrix, allocArray, allValue, anyMissing, anyValue, binCounts, binMeans, colAlls, colAnys, colAnyMissings, colAvgsPerRowSet, colCollapse, colCounts, colCummins, colCummaxs, colCumprods, colCumsums, colDiffs, colIQRs, colIQRDiffs, colLogSumExps, colMadDiffs, colMads, colMaxs, colMedians, colMins, colOrderStats, colProds, colQuantiles and 66 more
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allocVector, allocMatrix, allocArray, allValue, anyMissing, anyValue, binCounts, binMeans, colAlls, colAnys, colAnyMissings, colAvgsPerRowSet, colCollapse, colCounts, colCummins, colCummaxs, colCumprods, colCumsums, colDiffs, colIQRs, colIQRDiffs, colLogSumExps, colMadDiffs, colMads, colMaxs, colMedians, colMins, colOrderStats, colProds, colQuantiles and 66 more

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-14
Total releases: 59 / 17 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 207 KB

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Bengtsson, H., Ahlmann-Eltze, C., Corrada Bravo, H., Gentleman, R., Gleixner, J., Hickey, P., Hossjer, O., Jaffee, H., Jiang, D., Langfelder, P., Montgomery, B., Panagopoulou, A., Parsonage, H., & Pettersen, J. P. (2025). matrixStats: Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors) (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.matrixStats

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for matrixStats version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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