R Observatory: Metrics for summarisebig version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

summarisebig

0.1.0Package record

Grouped Summaries for Large 'arrow' Datasets

0packages depend

452downloads / year

75.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lorenzo IsellaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a 'dplyr'-like interface for grouped summaries on large 'arrow' datasets. Complete summaries are attempted in 'arrow' first. When a result can be reconstructed from 'arrow'-computable sufficient statistics, an explicit MapReduce-style reduction and 'R' finalization strategy is available. For arbitrary 'R' functions that require raw group observations, complete groups are materialized in bounded chunks, with optional parallel execution and shared-memory processing. The MapReduce strategy follows the programming model described by Dean and Ghemawat (2008) doi:10.1145/1327452.1327492.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial release

Arrow-first grouped summaries via summarise_big().
Explicit Arrow reduction plus R finalization with strategy = "map_reduce".
Bounded complete-group materialization via parallel_chunks and shared_chunk.
Optional Mirai/Futurize parallelism and Mori shared memory.
User functions referenced inside captured summary quosures are identified with future::getGlobalsAndPackages() and supplied explicitly to futurized workers.
The caller's Future plan is restored after every exit path.
Default worker count is 2.

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Added a runnable Getting Started vignette covering all four execution paths.
Added pkgdown configuration and GitHub setup instructions for the project website and continuous R CMD check.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("summarisebig", 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("larry77/summarisebig")

Development version from larry77/summarisebig. 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-summarisebig

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-summarisebig

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-summarisebig

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-09-22

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 2,279 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with summarisebig HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

452

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,755 · ~1/day · ~38/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45230 days

45290 days

4521 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

larry77/summarisebig ↗Account: larry77

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-09-11

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/larry77/summarisebig 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-11, before release 0.1.0 (2026-09-21)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing summarisebig adds 31 packages (16 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: arrow 4.2 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, nanonext 911 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (8)

arrow dplyr future future.mirai futurize furrr (>= 0.4.0)purrr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr mori rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Lorenzo Isella

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
2026-09-21 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 30 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("summarisebig")

Format

Isella, L. (2026). summarisebig: Grouped Summaries for Large 'arrow' Datasets (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.summarisebig

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for summarisebig version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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