R Observatory: Metrics for sparsevctrs version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparsevctrs

0.3.6Package record

Sparse Vectors for Use in Data Frames

5packages depend

1.9Mdownloads / year

92.2%test coverage

10/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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.

Changes in 0.3.6

Replaced deprecated ATTRIB() macro with R_altrep_class_name() and R_altrep_class_package() for R 4.6.0 compatibility.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

3NOTE10OK

Check messages

NOTEcompiled coder-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

File ‘sparsevctrs/libs/sparsevctrs.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘DATAPTR’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

File 'sparsevctrs/libs/x64/sparsevctrs.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'DATAPTR'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.6

READMEYes · 408 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Design behind sparsevctrs HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #318 · ~5.2K/day · ~157.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

113.2K30 days

330K90 days

1.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on29.7K r2u10 autocran261.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/sparsevctrs ↗Organization: r-lib

27Stars

2Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

404Commits

3Commit identities

404 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · +3.8% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.6.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.6 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 212026-09-25 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/sparsevctrs on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-10, before release 0.3.6 (2026-01-27)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-01-26
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sparsevctrs adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

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

398indirect

Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

recipes hardhat parsnip workflows textrecipes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Davis Vaughan

Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.6Latest
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2026-01-27 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2025-12-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2025-05-25 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2025-04-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.2
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2025-03-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2025-03-17 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2025-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
sparse_addition_scalar, sparse_division_scalar, sparse_is_na, sparse_lag, sparse_multiplication, sparse_multiplication_scalar, sparse_replace_na, sparse_sqrt, sparse_subtraction_scalar, sparse_which_na
0.2.0
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2025-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
has_sparse_elements, sparse_dummy, sparse_mean, sparse_median, sparse_sd, sparse_var, sparsity
0.1.0
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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

Cite

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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 v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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