R Observatory: Metrics for ropenblas version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ropenblas

0.4.0Package record

Download, Compile and Link 'OpenBLAS' Library with R

0packages depend

4.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pedro Rafael D. MarinhoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 'ropenblas' package (https://prdm0.github.io/ropenblas/) is useful for users of any 'GNU/Linux' distribution. It will be possible to download, compile and link the 'OpenBLAS' library (https://www.openblas.net/) with the R language, always by the same procedure, regardless of the 'GNU/Linux' distribution used. With the 'ropenblas' package it is possible to download, compile and link the latest version of the 'OpenBLAS' library even the repositories of the 'GNU/Linux' distribution used do not include the latest versions of 'OpenBLAS'. If of interest, older versions of the 'OpenBLAS' library may be considered. Linking R with an optimized version of 'BLAS' (https://netlib.org/blas/) may improve the computational performance of R code. The 'OpenBLAS' library is an optimized implementation of 'BLAS' that can be easily linked to R with the 'ropenblas' package.

Changes in 0.4.0

Bug fix.
The rcompiler function only compiles different versions of R. Linking with OpenBLAS is solely the responsibility of the ropenblas function.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ropenblas", 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("prdm0/ropenblas")

Development version from prdm0/ropenblas. 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-ropenblas

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-ropenblas

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-ropenblas

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
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

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 0%5 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,221 · ~13/day · ~410/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40830 days

1.1K90 days

4.9K1 year

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Also on103 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

prdm0/ropenblas ↗Account: prdm0

53Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

447Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 447 commits · Last activity 2025-06-28 · +1.9% stars, 30d · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 492026-10-06 · 53

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/prdm0/ropenblas on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-28

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ropenblas adds 31 packages (21 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (13)

glue stringr magrittr git2r pingr cli getPass rvest withr rlangstatsutilsfs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Pedro Rafael D. Marinho

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Enes Ahmeti

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Releases (14)

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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

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-02
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ropenblas")

Format

D. Marinho, P. R., & Ahmeti, E. (2025). ropenblas: Download, Compile and Link 'OpenBLAS' Library with R (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ropenblas

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ropenblas version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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