R Observatory: Metrics for sparsevctrs version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparsevctrs

0.3.6

Sparse Vectors for Use in Data Frames

5packages depend

2.1Mdownloads / year

92.2%test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtFirst published 2024-05-319 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides sparse vectors powered by ALTREP (Alternative Representations for R Objects) that behave like regular vectors, and can thus be used in data frames. Also provides tools to convert between sparse matrices and data frames with sparse columns and functions to interact with sparse vectors.

Install

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

install.packages("sparsevctrs", 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("r-lib/sparsevctrs")

Development version from r-lib/sparsevctrs. 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-sparsevctrs

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-sparsevctrs

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-sparsevctrs

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

Health

CRAN checks

3NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.81

92.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 408 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #299 · ~5.7K/day · ~173.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

109.2K30 days

384.3K90 days

2.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/sparsevctrs

26Stars

2Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

399Commits

3Contributors

399 commits · Last activity 2026-01-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 212026-07-07 · 26

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/sparsevctrs on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (3)

cli rlang vctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitrMatrixmethodsrmarkdown testthat tibble withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

393indirect

hardhat parsnip recipes textrecipes workflows

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Davis Vaughan

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.6Latest
2026-01-27 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.5
2025-12-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2025-05-25 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2025-04-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.2
2025-03-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2025-03-17 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2025-03-10 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-01-22 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-05-31
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-05-31
Total releases: 9 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 92 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sparsevctrs")

Format

Hvitfeldt, E., Posit Software, PBC, & Vaughan, D. (2026). sparsevctrs: Sparse Vectors for Use in Data Frames (Version 0.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparsevctrs

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparsevctrs version 0.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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