R Observatory: Metrics for stockfish version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2023-07-06. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 1.0.0, its last release before removal.

stockfish

1.0.0

Analyze Chess Games with the 'Stockfish' Engine

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Caio Lente5 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of the UCI open communication protocol that ships with 'Stockfish' https://stockfishchess.org/, a very popular, open source, powerful chess engine written in C++.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/stockfish/stockfish_1.0.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "stockfish_1.0.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.0.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("curso-r/stockfish")

Development version from curso-r/stockfish. 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-stockfish

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

# 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-stockfish

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 953 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

Releases R versions

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Also on315 r2u10 autocran29 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

processx R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Caio Lente

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.2

Authors (1)

Caio Lente

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.2

Contributors (4)

Tord Romstad

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Marco Costalba

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Joona Kiiski

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Gary Linscott

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

C. Lente

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.1

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-07-06
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2022-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2021-09-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
2021-05-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-04
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-04
policy violation uses platform-dependent code to skip failing checks instead of correcting them as asked
0.1.1
2021-03-26 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-03-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-12-19
policy violation On cross-platform portable code
0.1.0
2020-12-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

Total releases: 5
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("stockfish")

Format

Lente, C., Romstad, T., Costalba, M., Kiiski, J., & Linscott, G. (n.d.). stockfish: Analyze Chess Games with the 'Stockfish' Engine (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 15, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stockfish

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stockfish version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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