R Observatory: Metrics for nnet version 7.3-21

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nnet

7.3-21

Feed-Forward Neural Networks and Multinomial Log-Linear Models

327packages depend

791.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian RipleyFirst published 2009-05-0824 releasesCRAN page ↗

Software for feed-forward neural networks with a single hidden layer, and for multinomial log-linear models.

Install

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

install.packages("nnet", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-nnet

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-nnet

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-nnet

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

791.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #368 · ~2.2K/day · ~66K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

115K30 days

255.2K90 days

791.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on36.3K r2u6.2K autocran480K conda_forge467 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.0.0statsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

MASS

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

327direct

1,903indirect

and 279 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-4

Authors (1)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-4

Copyright holders (2)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-4

William Venables

Copyright holder · added in 7.3-8

Listed in earlier versions (2)

S original by Venables & Ripley. R port by Brian Ripley.

no longer listed · 7.3-0

Brian Ripley.

no longer listed · 2.10.0 to 7.3-1

Package Timeline

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

7.3-21Latest
2026-08-03 · 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
7.3-20
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
7.3-19
2023-05-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
7.3-18
2022-09-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
7.3-17
2022-01-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
7.3-16
2021-05-03 · diff ↗
7.3-15
2021-01-24 · diff ↗
7.3-14
2020-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
7.3-13
2020-02-25 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
7.3-12
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7.3-11
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7.3-10
2015-06-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
7.3-9
2015-02-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
7.3-8
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7.3-7
2013-07-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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7.3-6
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2.15.2
2012-10-11 · diff ↗
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2012-06-27 · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
7.3-1
2009-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
2.10.0
2009-05-09 · diff ↗
7.3-0
2009-05-08
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-05-08
Total releases: 24 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 31 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Ripley, B., & Venables, W. (2026). nnet: Feed-Forward Neural Networks and Multinomial Log-Linear Models (Version 7.3-21) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nnet

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