R Observatory: Metrics for pbapply version 1.7-5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pbapply

1.7-5

Adding Progress Bar to '*apply' Functions

233packages dependsuggested by 50

1.6Mdownloads / year

74.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter SolymosCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A lightweight package that adds progress bar to vectorized R functions ('*apply'). The implementation can easily be added to functions where showing the progress is useful (e.g. bootstrap). The type and style of the progress bar (with percentages or remaining time) can be set through options. Supports several parallel processing backends including mirai and future.

Changes in 1.7-5

Fix names attribute issue in examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pbapply", 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("psolymos/pbapply")

Development version from psolymos/pbapply. 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-pbapply

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-pbapply

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-pbapply

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7-5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7-5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #281 · ~4.3K/day · ~131.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

158.6K30 days

413.4K90 days

1.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on40.4K r2u91 autocran187.9K conda_forge1.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

psolymos/pbapply ↗Account: psolymos

163Stars

6Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

1,444Commits

8Commit identities

cranrprogress-barrstatsrstats-packager-package

1,444 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-02 · 1602026-08-20 · 163

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/psolymos/pbapply on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (1)

parallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

shiny future future.apply

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

233direct

358indirect

Depends 7 · Imports 226

Suggested by 50

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 185 more dependents and 50 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Peter Solymos

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-1 (2010)

Zygmunt Zawadzki

Author · added in 1.2-0

R Core Team

Copyright holder, Contributor · added in 1.7-0

Henrik Bengtsson

Contributor · added in 1.7-0

Releases (30)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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added 4 exports
pbeapply, pbvapply, pbby, pbMap
1.6-0
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added 2 exports
pb.mapply, pbwalk
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added 1 export
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pbtypes, getTimeAsString
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-09-03
Total releases: 30 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 23 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pbapply")

Format

Solymos, P., R Core Team, Bengtsson, H., & Zawadzki, Z. (2026). pbapply: Adding Progress Bar to '*apply' Functions (Version 1.7-5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pbapply

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pbapply version 1.7-5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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