R Observatory: Metrics for pbdSLAP version 0.3-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pbdSLAP

0.3-8Package record

Programming with Big Data -- Scalable Linear Algebra Packages

0packages depend

4.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wei-Chen ChenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Utilizing scalable linear algebra packages mainly including 'BLACS', 'PBLAS', and 'ScaLAPACK' in double precision via 'pbdMPI' based on 'ScaLAPACK' version 2.0.2.

Install

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

install.packages("pbdSLAP", 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("snoweye/pbdSLAP")

Development version from snoweye/pbdSLAP. 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-pbdslap

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-pbdSLAP

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Check messages

ERRORpackage dependenciesr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Package required but not available: ‘pbdMPI’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR9 OK, 4 ERRORNow
ERROR8 OK, 1 NOTE, 5 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-8

READMEYes · 147 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

pbdSLAP-guide PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,759 · ~13/day · ~393/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44330 days

1K90 days

4.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on361 r2u135 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

snoweye/pbdslap ↗Account: snoweyeFork of RBigData/pbdSLAP

0Stars

0Forks

0Open PRs

0Releases

License file reads as MPL-2.0 · Last activity 2026-05-31

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/snoweye/pbdslap on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitLab CITravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pbdSLAP adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: float 1.3 MB, pbdMPI 410 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.6.0methodspbdMPI

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Wei-Chen Chen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2012)

Author

Author

Author

Contributor · added in 0.1-9

Solaris & Mac

Listed in earlier versions (1)

ScaLAPACK

no longer listed · 2.15.2 to 0.1-3

Releases (34)

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2022-02-04
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-11-05
check problems were not corrected in time
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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-08
Total releases: 34 / 14 yrs
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 · relicensed from BSD in 0.1-7
Copyright: See 'pbdSLAP/inst/ScaLAPACK_LICENSE.txt' for the files in 'src/BLACS/', 'src/PBLAS/', 'src/REDIST/', 'src/ScaLAPACK/', and 'src/TOOLS/'.
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("pbdSLAP")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 pbdSLAP version 0.3-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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