R Observatory: Metrics for bigmemory version 4.6.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bigmemory

4.6.6Package record

Manage Massive Matrices with Shared Memory and Memory-Mapped Files

39packages dependsuggested by 9

197.4Kdownloads / year

48.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael J. KaneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Create, store, access, and manipulate massive matrices. Matrices are allocated to shared memory and may use memory-mapped files. Packages 'biganalytics', 'bigtabulate', 'synchronicity', and 'bigalgebra' provide advanced functionality.

Install

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

install.packages("bigmemory", 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("kaneplusplus/bigmemory")

Development version from kaneplusplus/bigmemory. 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-bigmemory

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-bigmemory

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-bigmemory

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.6.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 25includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

197.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #881 · ~541/day · ~16.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18K30 days

48.7K90 days

197.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.5K r2u23 autocran18.6K conda_forge178 bioconda178 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kaneplusplus/bigmemory ↗Account: kaneplusplus

133Stars

25Forks

38Open issues

3Open PRs

2Releases

345Commits

13Commit identities

345 commits · Last activity 2026-06-08 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (4.6.5) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 1302026-07-07 · 133

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kaneplusplus/bigmemory on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-07
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jun 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bigmemory adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, uuid 79 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (5)

bigmemory.srimethodsutilsRcpp uuid

LinkingTo (3)

BH uuid Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat remotes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

39direct

36indirect

Depends 9 · Imports 25 · LinkingTo 18

Suggested by 9

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

SuperLearner NMF bigstatsr bio3d NetRep LinkedMatrix nat.nblast matpow houba

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Michael J. Kane

Author, Maintainer since 4.2.1 (2010)

Charles Determan

Author · added in 4.6.0

John W. Emerson

Author

Peter Haverty

Author · added in 4.4.5

Previously maintained by John W. Emerson (2.0 to 3.12).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Charles Determan Jr.

no longer listed · 4.5.8 to 4.5.36

Releases (47)

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4.6.6Latest
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GetMatrixSize, as.big.matrix, file.name, flush, is.big.matrix, is.filebacked, is.float, is.readonly, is.separated, is.shared, is.sub.big.matrix, morderCols, mpermuteCols, mwhich, read.big.matrix, shared.name, write.big.matrix
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as.big.matrix, is.big.matrix, is.separated, is.filebacked, shared.big.matrix, is.shared, rw.mutex, attach.rw.mutex, rlock, rwlock, unlock, describe, biglm.big.matrix, bigglm.big.matrix, hash.mat, read.big.matrix, write.big.matrix, colsd, colvar, mwhich, colmin, colmax, colrange, colsum, colprod, colmean, binit, colna

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-22
Total releases: 47 / 18 yrs
License: LGPL-3 | Apache License 2.0 OSI · relicensed from LGPL-3 in 4.5.8
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 71 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bigmemory version 4.6.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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