R Observatory: Metrics for profmem version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

profmem

0.7.0

Simple Memory Profiling for R

3packages depend

428.5Kdownloads / year

96.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2016-09-154 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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).

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.46

96.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

428.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #725 · ~1.2K/day · ~35.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19.1K30 days

73.3K90 days

428.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9.4K r2u174 autocran2.2K conda_forge33 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ henrikbengtsson/profmem

39Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

180Commits

1Contributors

rpackagecranmemory-profilerramperformance

180 commits · Last activity 2025-05-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-15 · 362026-07-07 · 39

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/profmem on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

R.rsp markdown microbenchmark

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.0Latest
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
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
2018-01-30 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.0
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

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

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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 v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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