R Observatory: Metrics for symbolicr version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

symbolicr

1.0.0Package record

Symbolic Regression Framework

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Danilo TomasoniCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Fondazione The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology COSBI

Find non-linear formulas that fits your input data. You can systematically explore and memorize the possible formulas and it's cross-validation performance, in an incremental fashion. Three main interoperable search functions are available: 1) random.search() performs a random exploration, 2) genetic.search() employs a genetic optimization algorithm, 3) comb.search() combines best results of the first two. For more details see Tomasoni et al. (2026) doi:10.1208/s12248-026-01232-z.

Changes in 1.0.0

Initial CRAN submission.
All tests wrapped in *donttest* because they take more than 5 sec to run even if they are toy examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("symbolicr", 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("cosbi-research/symbolicr")

Development version from cosbi-research/symbolicr. 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-symbolicr

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-symbolicr

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-symbolicr

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK8 OK2026-04-22

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 482 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19
Examples that run: 21%3 run in a plain check · 11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,322 · ~6/day · ~180/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31530 days

90790 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on37 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cosbi-research/symbolicr ↗Organization: cosbi-research

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

93Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as AGPL-3.0 · 93 commits · Last activity 2026-08-31 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 53
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-08-10 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cosbi-research/symbolicr on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing symbolicr adds 19 packages (13 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, GA 4.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

data.table GA gtools RcppAlgosstatsstringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Danilo Tomasoni

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Fondazione The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology COSBI

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2026-04-21 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 61 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("symbolicr")

Format

Tomasoni, D., & COSBI, F. T. M. R. -. U. o. T. C. f. C. a. S. B. (2026). symbolicr: Symbolic Regression Framework (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.symbolicr

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

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 symbolicr version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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