R Observatory: Metrics for roptim version 0.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

roptim

0.1.7Package record

General Purpose Optimization in R using C++

8packages depend

45.8Kdownloads / year

22.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yi PanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Perform general purpose optimization in R using C++. A unified wrapper interface is provided to call C functions of the five optimization algorithms ('Nelder-Mead', 'BFGS', 'CG', 'L-BFGS-B' and 'SANN') underlying optim().

Install

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

install.packages("roptim", 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("ypan1988/roptim")

Development version from ypan1988/roptim. 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-roptim

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-roptim

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-roptim

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

roptim: An R Package for General Purpose Optimization with C++ PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

45.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,594 · ~126/day · ~3.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

14.5K90 days

45.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.2K r2u6 autocran9.6K conda_forge116 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ypan1988/roptim ↗Account: ypan1988

22Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

47Commits

5Commit identities

nelder-meadbfgsconjugate-gradientl-bfgs-bsimulated-annealingcranoptimarmadillo

47 commits · Last activity 2025-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 8

Stars over time

2025-10-08 · 212026-07-07 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ypan1988/roptim on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing roptim adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (2)

R.rsp testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

13indirect

LinkingTo 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

psychonetrics EFAtools bigsnpr numbat hahmmr magi jmcm glmSTARMA

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Yi Pan

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2022-08-06 · diff ↗
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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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2020-06-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.4
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2020-04-02 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2020-03-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.2
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2018-11-12 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2018-10-18 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2018-09-30

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-30
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 170 KB

Appears in task views

Optimization and Mathematical Programming

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("roptim")

Format

Pan, Y. (2025). roptim: General Purpose Optimization in R using C++ (Version 0.1.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.roptim

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for roptim version 0.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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