R Observatory: Metrics for opencltools version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

opencltools

0.8.3Package record

'OpenCL' Tools for R Package Developers

3packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

16.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kjell NygrenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Runtime 'OpenCL' support for R package developers: probe hardware and drivers, load and concatenate kernel sources, and manage dependency-annotated '.cl' libraries, so packages like 'nmathopencl' and other ported libraries can offer GPU acceleration without each re-implementing and related helpers. Vignettes illustrate integration with suggested package 'nmathopencl' and with downstream applications such as 'glmbayes'; production kernels for those applications ship in those packages rather than here.

Changes in 0.8.3

Bug fixes

**Configure:** Removed **tools/rcpp_include.R** Rcpp header probing, Function.h branch flags, and **glmbayes_getRegisteredNamespace** shim (rely on **LinkingTo: Rcpp** and CRAN **Rcpp** instead).
**Suggests:** Removed **glmbayes** while that package is off CRAN (avoids CRAN incoming NOTE on non-mainstream repositories).
**.Rbuildignore:** Added **^\.cursor$** (hidden directory NOTE).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("opencltools", 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("knygren/opencltools")

Development version from knygren/opencltools. 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-opencltools

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-opencltools

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-opencltools

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: 5.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-06-09
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

OK6 OK2026-06-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.3

READMEYes · 2,604 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,215 · ~5/day · ~153/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29330 days

95590 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on175 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

knygren/opencltools ↗Account: knygren

5Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

1,223Commits

7Commit identities

1,223 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-05-25 · 12026-09-01 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/knygren/opencltools on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Cursorfirst seen 2026-04-18
Seen in the repository: .cursor
Named in .Rbuildignore: .cursor
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-24
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing opencltools adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 6.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

statsRcpp RcppParallel Rdpack jsonlite

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel

Suggests (5)

nmathopencl testthat spelling knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3 · LinkingTo 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

glmbayes glmbayesCore nmathopencl

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Kjell Nygren

Author, Maintainer since 0.8.1 (2026)

The R Core Team

Contributor, Copyright holder

R Mathlib sources, R stats modeling code, and derived/adapted routines

Simon Davies

Contributor

Original R glm implementation

Robert Gentleman

Contributor, Copyright holder

Portions of R Mathlib

Ross Ihaka

Contributor, Copyright holder

R Mathlib and original R modeling infrastructure

Martin Maechler

Contributor

Portions of R Mathlib

Morten Welinder

Contributor, Copyright holder

Portions of R Mathlib

The R Foundation

Copyright holder

Portions of R Mathlib and R source code

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.8.3Latest
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2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
0.8.2
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2026-07-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
load_library_for_kernel_cross_package, load_program_preload, read_program_preload_manifest, write_program_preload_manifest
0.8.1
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2026-06-03
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-03
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("opencltools")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 opencltools version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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