R Observatory: Metrics for numDeriv version 2016.8-1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

numDeriv

2016.8-1.1Package record

Accurate Numerical Derivatives

391packages dependsuggested by 114

9.5Mdownloads / year

89.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul GilbertCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Methods for calculating (usually) accurate numerical first and second order derivatives. Accurate calculations are done using 'Richardson''s' extrapolation or, when applicable, a complex step derivative is available. A simple difference method is also provided. Simple difference is (usually) less accurate but is much quicker than 'Richardson''s' extrapolation and provides a useful cross-check. Methods are provided for real scalar and vector valued functions.

Install

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

install.packages("numDeriv", 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-numderiv

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-numDeriv

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-numDeriv

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Paul Gilbert <pgilbert.ttv9z@ncf.ca>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Paul",
                      family = "Gilbert",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "pgilbert.ttv9z@ncf.ca"),
               person(given = "Ravi",
                      family = "Varadhan",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2016.8-1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #79 · ~26K/day · ~790.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

767.4K30 days

2.4M90 days

9.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89.9K r2u226 autocran488.5K conda_forge6.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.11.1

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

391direct

2,786indirect

Depends 35 · Imports 356

Suggested by 114

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 343 more dependents and 114 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Paul Gilbert

Ravi Varadhan

· added in 2012.9-1

Maintainer since 2006.4-1 (2006)

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-04-12
Total releases: 8 / 20 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.11.1
Download size: 74 KB

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Numerical Mathematics

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for numDeriv version 2016.8-1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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