R Observatory: Metrics for profmem version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

profmem

0.7.0Package record

Simple Memory Profiling for R

1packages dependsuggested by 2

337.6Kdownloads / year

96.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A simple and light-weight API for memory profiling of R expressions. The profiling is built on top of R's built-in memory profiler ('utils::Rprofmem()'), which records every memory allocation done by R (also native code).

Changes in 0.7.0

New Features

profmem() gained argument on_error to control what should happen when there is a run-time error during profiling. Known actions are "error", "warning", and "ignore" (default).
print() for Rprofmem objects now report on any run-time errors that occurred while profiling the R expression.
print() for Rprofmem objects gained logical argument `calls' to control whether calls ("traces") are outputted.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("profmem", 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("HenrikBengtsson/profmem")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/profmem. 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-profmem

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-profmem

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-profmem

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

337.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #833 · ~925/day · ~28.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16.4K30 days

53.7K90 days

337.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.6K r2u136 autocran2.2K conda_forge77 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

henrikbengtsson/profmem ↗Account: HenrikBengtsson

39Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

180Commits

1Commit identities

rpackagecranmemory-profilerramperformance

180 commits · Last activity 2025-05-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0-9000, ahead of CRAN 0.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 382026-07-07 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/profmem on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-02

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

R.rsp markdown microbenchmark

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

3indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bench

Suggests, most downloaded first

mashr zoomerjoin

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.0Latest
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2025-05-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.0
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2020-12-13 · diff ↗
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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
0.5.0
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2018-01-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
profmem_begin, profmem_depth, profmem_end, profmem_resume, profmem_status, profmem_suspend
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.0
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2016-09-15
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-15
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Download size: 19 KB

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High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("profmem")

Format

Bengtsson, H. (2025). profmem: Simple Memory Profiling for R (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.profmem

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 profmem version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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