R Observatory: Metrics for pbmcapply version 1.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pbmcapply

1.5.1Package record

Tracking the Progress of Mc*pply with Progress Bar

35packages dependsuggested by 8

206.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin kuangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A light-weight package helps you track and visualize the progress of parallel version of vectorized R functions (mc*apply). Parallelization (mc.core > 1) works only on *nix (Linux, Unix such as macOS) system due to the lack of fork() functionality, which is essential for mc*apply, on Windows.

Install

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

install.packages("pbmcapply", 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("kvnkuang/pbmcapply")

Development version from kvnkuang/pbmcapply. 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-pbmcapply

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-pbmcapply

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-pbmcapply

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: ‘Kevin kuang <kvn.kuang@mail.utoronto.ca>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Kevin",
                      family = "Kuang",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "kvn.kuang@mail.utoronto.ca",
                      comment = "aut"),
               person(given = "Quyu",
                      family = "Kong",
                      role = "aut",
                      comment = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Francesco",
                      family = "Napolitano",
                      role = "aut",
                      comment = "ctb"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 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 1.5.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 34%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

206.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #873 · ~566/day · ~17.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16.7K30 days

49.2K90 days

206.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.9K r2u4 autocran17.6K conda_forge172 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kvnkuang/pbmcapply ↗Account: kvnkuang

45Stars

4Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

116Commits

6Commit identities

rparallelizationprogress-bar

116 commits · Last activity 2022-04-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-17 · 452026-07-07 · 45

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kvnkuang/pbmcapply on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (2)

utilsparallel

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

35direct

24indirect

Imports 35

Suggested by 8

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

progressr HelpersMG imagefluency causal.decomp AgePopDenom mutator robber detectXOR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Kevin Kuang

aut

Quyu Kong

· added in 1.4.1

ctb

Francesco Napolitano

· added in 1.2.0

ctb

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Releases (16)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-06
Total releases: 16 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 7.9 KB

Cite

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citation("pbmcapply")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pbmcapply version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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