R Observatory: Metrics for bench version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bench

1.1.4Package record

High Precision Timing of R Expressions

3packages dependsuggested by 79

404.8Kdownloads / year

80.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Davis VaughanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Tools to accurately benchmark and analyze execution times for R expressions.

Changes in 1.1.4

press() gains a new .quiet argument to silence progress messages (#145).
The .grid argument of press() now subsets data.frames and tibbles consistently (#142).
bench_time_trans() and bench_bytes_trans() once again apply pretty breaks correctly (#140, @plietar, @simonpcouch).
R >=4.0.0 is now required, which is aligned with tidyverse standards.
Switched to modern ggplot2 conventions internally (#141, @olivroy).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bench", 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("r-lib/bench")

Development version from r-lib/bench. 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-bench

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-bench

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-bench

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: 2.6 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.4

READMEYes · 492 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 53%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

404.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #765 · ~1.1K/day · ~33.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20.2K30 days

64K90 days

404.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.7K r2u237 autocran6.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/bench ↗Organization: r-lib

257Stars

25Forks

15Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

351Commits

21Commit identities

r

351 commits · Last activity 2025-10-23 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
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

2025-08-13 · 2512026-09-01 · 257

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/bench 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-01-16

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bench adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

gluemethodspillar profmem (>= 0.6.0)rlangstatstibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

covr dplyr forcats ggbeeswarm ggplot2 ggridgesparallelscales testthat tidyr (>= 1.3.1)vctrs withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 2

Suggested by 79

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

atime CSwR syrup

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and 34 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.2 (2021) · added in 1.1.2

Jim Hester

Author

Drew Schmidt

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

read_proc_file implementation

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.1.3

Previously maintained by Jim Hester (1.0.0 to 1.1.1).

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.4Latest
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2025-01-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.3
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2023-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.2
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bench_load_average
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.1
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2020-01-14 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bench_process_memory, workout_expressions
1.0.4
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2019-09-06 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2019-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bench_memory, hires_time
1.0.2
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2019-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
scale_color_bench_expr, scale_colour_bench_expr, scale_x_bench_expr, scale_y_bench_expr, workout
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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1.0.1
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2018-06-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-05-27
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-27
Total releases: 10 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.1.2
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 309 KB

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Format

Vaughan, D., Posit Software, PBC, Hester, J., & Schmidt, D. (2025). bench: High Precision Timing of R Expressions (Version 1.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bench

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bench version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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