R Observatory: Metrics for snowFT version 1.6-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

snowFT

1.6-1

Fault Tolerant Simple Network of Workstations

4packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

64.2%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hana SevcikovaFirst published 2004-09-1111 releasesCRAN page ↗

Extension of the snow package supporting fault tolerant and reproducible applications, as well as supporting easy-to-use parallel programming - only one function is needed. Dynamic cluster size is also available.

Install

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

install.packages("snowFT", 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-snowft

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-snowFT

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-snowFT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

64.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 25%
References docs: 20%

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,284 · ~20/day · ~600/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23830 days

99590 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on115 r2u13 autocran74 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0-0rlecuyer

Imports (2)

parallelsnow

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rmpi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

bayesTFR fractaldim latentnet npsf

Code & Tests

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (2)

A. J. Rossini

no longer listed · 0.0-1 to 1.6-1

Hana Sevcikova

no longer listed · 0.0-1 to 1.6-1

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06
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R 2.1.0 released · 2005-04-18
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R 2.0.0 released · 2004-10-04
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R 1.9.0 released · 2004-04-12

Package metadata

First published: 2004-09-11
Total releases: 11 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 16 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for snowFT version 1.6-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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