R Observatory: Metrics for spam version 2.11-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spam

2.11-4Package record

SPArse Matrix

40packages dependsuggested by 10

1.1Mdownloads / year

71.7%test coverage

5/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Reinhard FurrerCRAN page ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Set of functions for sparse matrix algebra. Differences with other sparse matrix packages are: (1) we only support (essentially) one sparse matrix format, (2) based on transparent and simple structure(s), (3) tailored for MCMC calculations within G(M)RF. (4) and it is fast and scalable (with the extension package spam64). Documentation about 'spam' is provided by vignettes included in this package, see also Furrer and Sain (2010) doi:10.18637/jss.v036.i10; see 'citation("spam")' for details.

Install

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

install.packages("spam", 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-spam

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-spam

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-spam

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

8NOTE5OK

Check messages

NOTEfor differences from example reference outputr-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Comparing ‘spam-Ex.Rout’ to ‘spam-Ex.Rout.save’:
78,82c78,82
<  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "exp"      "expm1"   
< [13] "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"      "cosh"    
< [19] "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"     "acosh"   
< [25] "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"    "sinpi"   
< [31] "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"
---
>  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "cumvar"   "exp"     
> [13] "expm1"    "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"     
> [19] "cosh"     "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"    
> [25] "acosh"    "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"   
> [31] "sinpi"    "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"

r-release-windows-x86_64

Comparing 'spam-Ex.Rout' to 'spam-Ex.Rout.save':
78,82c78,82
<  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "exp"      "expm1"   
< [13] "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"      "cosh"    
< [19] "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"     "acosh"   
< [25] "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"    "sinpi"   
< [31] "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"
---
>  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "cumvar"   "exp"     
> [13] "expm1"    "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"     
> [19] "cosh"     "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"    
> [25] "acosh"    "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"   
> [31] "sinpi"    "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"

NOTEdifferences from ‘spam-Ex.Rout’ to ‘spam-Ex.Rout.save’r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

78,82c78,82
<  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "exp"      "expm1"   
< [13] "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"      "cosh"    
< [19] "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"     "acosh"   
< [25] "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"    "sinpi"   
< [31] "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"
---
>  [7] "cummax"   "cummin"   "cumprod"  "cumsum"   "cumvar"   "exp"     
> [13] "expm1"    "log"      "log10"    "log2"     "log1p"    "cos"     
> [19] "cosh"     "sin"      "sinh"     "tan"      "tanh"     "acos"    
> [25] "acosh"    "asin"     "asinh"    "atan"     "atanh"    "cospi"   
> [31] "sinpi"    "tanpi"    "gamma"    "lgamma"   "digamma"  "trigamma"

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE5 OK, 8 NOTENow
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-23
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 2.11-4

READMEYes · 137 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.11-4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 73 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%56 run in a plain check · 8 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 77%
Help pages citing references: 77%

Also includes 7 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

`spam`, a SPArse Matrix package

How these are measured

Downloads

1.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #367 · ~3.1K/day · ~94.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

83.7K30 days

250.1K90 days

1.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on34.4K r2u255 autocran179.5K conda_forge815 bioconda1.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

git.math.uzh.ch/reinhard.furrer/spam ↗

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

47Commits

4Commit identities

47 commits · Last activity 2026-03-09

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository git.math.uzh.ch/reinhard.furrer/spam is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spam adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, dotCall64 20 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (4)

dotCall64gridmethodsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (8)

spam64 fieldsMatrixtestthat R.rsp truncdist knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

40direct

317indirect

Depends 6 · Imports 34

Suggested by 10

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

dotCall64 spdep optimParallel spatialreg spam64 tipsae gear krippendorffsalpha

and 2 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (15)

Reinhard Furrer

Author, Maintainer since 0.11 (2007)

Roman Flury

Author · added in 2.1-4

Florian Gerber

Author · added in 0.41-0

Yang Chao

Contributor · added in 2.2-0

ARPACK

Annina Cincera

Contributor · added in 2.11-0

Sorensen C. Danny

Contributor

ARPACK

Alan D. George

Contributor

Fortran Cholesky routines

Daniel Gerber

Contributor · added in 2.1-0

Maschhoff Kristi

Contributor · added in 2.2-0

ARPACK

Joseph W.H. Liu

Contributor

Fortran Cholesky routines

Kaspar Moesinger

Contributor · added in 2.1-0

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Esmond G. Ng

Contributor

Fortran Cholesky routines

Barry W. Peyton

Contributor

Fortran Cholesky routines

Lehoucq B. Rich

Contributor

ARPACK

Youcef Saad

Contributor · added in 2.1-1

SPARSEKIT http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~saad/software/SPARSKIT/

Listed in earlier versions (6)

Show 6 peopleHide 6 people

Alan D.

no longer listed · 2.1-1 to 2.11-4

Esmond G.

no longer listed · 2.1-1 to 2.11-4

Barry W.

no longer listed · 2.1-1 to 2.11-4

Joseph W.H.

no longer listed · 2.1-1 to 2.11-4

Lehoucq B.

no longer listed · 2.2-0 to 2.11-4

Sorensen C.

no longer listed · 2.2-0 to 2.11-4

Releases (54)

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2.11-4Latest
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2026-05-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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rmvnorm.cond, rmvt, rmvt.spam, rgrf, cov.finnmat, cov.mat12, cov.mat32, cov.mat52, neg2loglikelihood.nomean
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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rmvnorm.conditional
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rmvnorm, cor.sph
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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gmult, print_nnzpos

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-09-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
todo, spam.history, spam.options, spam.getOption

added 1 export
spam_random
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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validate_spam
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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subset.rows.spam, as.matrix.csr.spam

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spam_diag
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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dcheck, icheck

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spam_rdist, spam_rdist.earth, as.vector.spam, pad<-.spam, var.spam, eigen.spam, crossprod.spam, tcrossprod.spam, rowpointers<-, entries<-, colindices<-, dimension<-
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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make.prec, backsolve

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precmat, precmat.RWn, precmat.GMRFreglat, covmat, cov.exp, cov.sph, cov.nug, cov.wu1, cov.wu2, cov.wu3, cov.wend1, cov.wend2, cov.mat, germany.plot, grid_trace2, grid_zoom
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log, gamma, lgamma, round, signif, max, min, range, prod, sum, any, all

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rmvnorm.const, rmvnorm.canonical.const, rmvnorm.prec.const, precmat.RW1, precmat.RW2, precmat.season, precmat.IGMRFreglat, precmat.IGMRFirreglat, rowSums.spam, colSums.spam, rowMeans.spam, colMeans.spam, head.spam, tail.spam, chol2inv.spam, subset.spam, subset.rows.spam, backsolve
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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cleanup
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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diff.spam, circulant.spam, toeplitz.spam, make.prec
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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mle.spam, mle.nomean.spam, neg2loglikelihood.spam, mle, mle.nomean, neg2loglikelihood, bdiag.spam, bandwidth, powerboost, permutation.spam
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map.landkreis, adjacency.landkreis
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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apply.spam, rmvnorm.spam, rmvnorm.canonical, rmvnorm.prec, adiag.spam, .spam.matmul.mat
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removed 1 export
spam.spam

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as.spam.dist, as.spam.list, isSymmetric.spam, all.equal.spam
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2008-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
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spam.version, spam.Version, nearest.dist, spam.spam, spam.list, diag<-.spam, dim<-.spam, kronecker.default, kronecker.spam, update.spam.chol.NgPeyton, norm.spam, triplet, as.spam.matrix.csr, as.matrix.csr.spam, as.dgRMatrix.spam, as.dgCMatrix.spam, as.spam.dgRMatrix, as.spam.dgCMatrix, read.MM, read.HB
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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.Spam

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spam.options, spam.getOption
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dcheck, icheck, validspamobject, as.spam.chol.NgPeyton, chol.spam, solve.spam, forwardsolve.spam, backsolve.spam, plot.spam, display.spam, image.spam
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2007-09-08
Total releases: 54 / 19 yrs
License: LGPL-2 | BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from LGPL-2 in 2.2-0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 216 KB / 5 files
Download size: 3.1 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("spam")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v036.i10, 10.18637/jss.v063.c01, 10.1016/j.cageo.2016.11.015.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spam version 2.11-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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