R Observatory: Metrics for vecvec version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vecvec

1.4.0Package record

Construct Mixed Type Data Structures with Vectors of Vectors

2packages depend

22.4Kdownloads / year

84.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mitchell O'Hara-WildCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Mixed type vectors are useful for combining semantically similar classes. Some examples of semantically related classes include time across different granularities (e.g. daily, monthly, annual) and probability distributions (e.g. Normal, Uniform, Poisson). These groups of vector types typically share common statistical operations which vary in results with the attributes of each vector. The 'vecvec' data structure facilitates efficient storage and computation across multiple vectors within the same object.

Changes in 1.4.0

Improvements

Restoring a vecvec from its vctrs proxy is much faster (no longer quadratic in its length). Rows are now grouped by the identity of their slots rather than hashing their contents once per row.
vecvec_apply() now splices vecvec results from .f into the result instead of nesting them, so unvecvec() simplifies them directly.

Bug fixes

vec_c() and vec_rbind() (and so dplyr::bind_rows()) no longer reorder elements when the inputs' storage is interleaved, e.g. vec_c(a, b, a) previously returned the elements of b last.
c() of a single zero-length vecvec (e.g. c(x[0])) no longer errors with "Underlying data must be <integer> not <list>".

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duplicated(), anyDuplicated() and unique() now detect duplicates among elements whose indices point at the same stored value, e.g. after x[c(1, 1)]. Missing indices are now duplicates of each other rather than NA.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vecvec", 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("mitchelloharawild/vecvec")

Development version from mitchelloharawild/vecvec. 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-vecvec

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-vecvec

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-vecvec

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: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.0

READMEYes · 260 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

22.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,407 · ~61/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12.2K30 days

19.2K90 days

22.4K1 year

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Also on382 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mitchelloharawild/vecvec ↗Account: mitchelloharawild

4Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

256Commits

2Commit identities

256 commits · Last activity 2026-10-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-29 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mitchelloharawild/vecvec on 2026-10-11.

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)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vecvec adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

cli rlang S7statsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

lifecycle testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

12indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggtime mixtime

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Releases (8)

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1.4.0Latest
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2026-10-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vecvec_abind
·
26 hours in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-11 06:41 to 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC, in 6 readings.
1.3.0
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2026-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vecvec_mapply
1.2.0
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2026-06-23 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2026-06-04 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2026-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
new_vecvec

added 7 exports
class_vecvec, cor, cov, is_vecvec, var, vecvec_apply_fn, vecvec_register
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1
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2026-04-08 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2025-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vecvec_apply
0.1.0
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2025-06-29
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 19 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-29
Total releases: 8 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 53 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("vecvec")

Format

O'Hara-Wild, M. (2026). vecvec: Construct Mixed Type Data Structures with Vectors of Vectors (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vecvec

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vecvec version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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