R Observatory: Metrics for rootSolve version 1.8.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rootSolve

1.8.2.4Package record

Nonlinear Root Finding, Equilibrium and Steady-State Analysis of Ordinary Differential Equations

96packages dependsuggested by 9

633.1Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Karline SoetaertCRAN page ↗

Routines to find the root of nonlinear functions, and to perform steady-state and equilibrium analysis of ordinary differential equations (ODE). Includes routines that: (1) generate gradient and jacobian matrices (full and banded), (2) find roots of non-linear equations by the 'Newton-Raphson' method, (3) estimate steady-state conditions of a system of (differential) equations in full, banded or sparse form, using the 'Newton-Raphson' method, or by dynamically running, (4) solve the steady-state conditions for uni-and multicomponent 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D partial differential equations, that have been converted to ordinary differential equations by numerical differencing (using the method-of-lines approach). Includes fortran code.

Install

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

install.packages("rootSolve", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rootsolve

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-rootSolve

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-rootSolve

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.8.2.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%16 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 29%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

roots, gradients and steady-states in R PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

633.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #502 · ~1.7K/day · ~52.8K/mo

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55K30 days

147.5K90 days

633.1K1 year

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Also on9.7K r2u145 autocran71.3K conda_forge411 c2d4u

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.01

Imports (3)

statsgraphicsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

96direct

146indirect

Depends 13 · Imports 83

Suggested by 9

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People & History

People (6)

Karline Soetaert

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2008)

Jack Dongarra

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

file dlinpk.f

S.C. Eisenstat

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

file sparse.f

Alan C. Hindmarsh

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

files lsodes.f, sparse.f

Cleve Moler

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

file dlinpk.f

Youcef Saad

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

file dsparsk.f

Listed in earlier versions (1)

yale sparse matrix package authors

no longer listed · 1.6.5.1 to 1.7

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-02
Total releases: 20 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.01
Download size: 492 KB

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Differential Equations Numerical Mathematics

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rootSolve version 1.8.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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