R Observatory: Metrics for rTorch version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-03-24. Its history is shown below.

Reason: email to the maintainer is undeliverable

Details below reflect version 0.4.2, its last release before removal.

rTorch

0.4.2

R Bindings to 'PyTorch'

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alfonso R. Reyes3 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'R' implementation and interface of the Machine Learning platform 'PyTorch' https://pytorch.org/ developed in 'Python'. It requires a 'conda' environment with 'torch' and 'torchvision' Python packages to provide 'PyTorch' functions, methods and classes. The key object in 'PyTorch' is the tensor which is in essence a multidimensional array. These tensors are fairly flexible in performing calculations in CPUs as well as 'GPUs' to accelerate tensor operations.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rTorch/rTorch_0.4.2.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "rTorch_0.4.2.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.4.2) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("f0nzie/rTorch")

Development version from f0nzie/rTorch. 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-rtorch

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

# 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-rTorch

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.30

not tracked

Coverage

91%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 834 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 3%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 17%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Also on82 r2u12 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (5)

reticulate jsonliteutilsmethodsrstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Alfonso R. Reyes

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Alfonso R. Reyes

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Alfonso R. Reyes

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (2)

JJ Allaire

no longer listed · 0.0.3

Daniel Falbel

no longer listed · 0.0.3

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-03-24
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.2
2020-10-12 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2020-10-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.3
2019-08-05
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

Total releases: 3
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rTorch")

Format

Reyes, A. R. (n.d.). rTorch: R Bindings to 'PyTorch' (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rTorch

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rTorch version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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