R Observatory: Metrics for snow version 0.4-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

snow

0.4-4Package record

Simple Network of Workstations

26packages dependsuggested by 14

1.4Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luke TierneyCRAN page ↗

Support for simple parallel computing in R.

Install

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

install.packages("snow", 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-snow

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-snow

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-snow

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Luke Tierney <luke-tierney@uiowa.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Luke",
                      family = "Tierney",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "luke-tierney@uiowa.edu"),
               person(given = c("A.", "J."),
                      family = "Rossini",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Na",
                      family = "Li",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "H.",
                      family = "Sevcikova",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 57 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4-4

READMEYes · 550 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #287 · ~3.9K/day · ~119K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

148.1K30 days

398.6K90 days

1.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on39.2K r2u6 autocran485K conda_forge15K bioconda231 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (2)

R >= 2.13.1utils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

rlecuyer

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

26direct

119indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 24

Suggested by 14

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

parallelMap batchtools scdhlm MoEClust MetaNet SpaDES.tools pcutils sgsR dCUR pctax ReporterScore ASML wflo popstudy

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (4)

· added in 0.2-0

Maintainer since 0.1-1

Releases (21)

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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 1.7.0 released · 2003-04-16
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R 1.6.0 released · 2002-10-01

Package metadata

First published: 2003-03-10
Total releases: 21 / 23 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.1
Download size: 20 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for snow version 0.4-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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