R Observatory: Metrics for ramify version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ramify

0.4.0Package record

Additional Matrix Functionality

3packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

68.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon M. GreenwellCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Additional matrix functionality for R including: (1) wrappers for the base matrix function that allow matrices to be created from character strings and lists (the former is especially useful for creating block matrices), (2) better printing of large matrices via the generic "pretty" print function, and (3) a number of convenience functions for users more familiar with other scientific languages like 'Julia', 'Matlab'/'Octave', or 'Python'+'NumPy'.

Changes in 0.4.0

Added

A CHANGELOG.md file to track changes to the package.
A .Rbuildignore file to ensure a clean package build process.
Enabled and corrected unit tests for bmat() to ensure its functionality is verified.

Changed

Migrated all package documentation from standard roxygen2 tags to markdown syntax for improved readability and maintenance.
Modernized the DESCRIPTION file, adding a VignetteBuilder field to ensure vignettes build correctly and resolving R CMD check warnings.
"Beefed up" the README.md file with a more comprehensive overview, usage examples, and modern formatting.
Updated .gitignore with more robust, standard rules for R package development.
Updated package-level documentation to use the _PACKAGE sentinel, resolving a roxygen2 deprecation warning.

Fixed

The bmat() function now correctly evaluates matrix objects in the calling environment, resolving a scoping issue that caused testthat failures.

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The mat() function now correctly trims whitespace from parsed values, ensuring proper conversion to numeric type.
The mat() function now correctly handles whitespace as a separator when sep = "".
Resolved a CRAN check NOTE by correcting a cross-package link in the matrix_rank() documentation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ramify", 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("bgreenwell/ramify")

Development version from bgreenwell/ramify. 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-ramify

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-ramify

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-ramify

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: 1.3 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 0.4.0

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 29 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%27 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 79%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to ramify

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,764 · ~14/day · ~435/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52530 days

1.3K90 days

5.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on80 r2u4 autocran53 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bgreenwell/ramify ↗Account: bgreenwell

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

167Commits

1Commit identities

rmatrices

167 commits · Last activity 2025-06-23

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 64
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-02-05 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bgreenwell/ramify on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-23, before release 0.4.0 (2025-06-24)

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

natstrat Epoch sgmodel

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Brandon M. Greenwell

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Brandon Greenwell

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.4.0

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
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2025-06-24 · 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
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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
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.3
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2016-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
clip, matrix_rank, repmat
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.2
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2015-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
atleast_2d
0.3.1
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2015-07-08 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2015-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
as.mat

added 8 exports
is.tril, is.triu, meshgrid, pprint, tr, tri, tril, triu

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.0
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2015-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
as.mat, argmax, argmin, randi
0.1.0
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2015-03-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-03-23
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 217 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("ramify")

Format

Greenwell, B. M. (2025). ramify: Additional Matrix Functionality (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ramify

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ramify version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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