Brobdingnag

1.2-9

Very Large Numbers in R

13packages depend

481.9Kdownloads / year

32.8%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinFirst published 2007-01-0919 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Very large numbers in R. Real numbers are held using their natural logarithms, plus a logical flag indicating sign. Functionality for complex numbers is also provided. The package includes a vignette that gives a step-by-step introduction to using S4 methods.

Install

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

install.packages("Brobdingnag", 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("RobinHankin/Brobdingnag")

Development version from RobinHankin/Brobdingnag. 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-brobdingnag

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-Brobdingnag

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-Brobdingnag

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

32.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-27
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 298 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 96%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

481.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #536 · ~1.3K/day · ~40.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ robinhankin/brobdingnag

6Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

138Commits

2Contributors

138 commits · Last activity 2026-07-13 · +20% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/brobdingnag on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 2.13.0methodsMatrix

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

cubature testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

13direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hankin

no longer listed · 1.2-7 to 1.2-9

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-01-09
Total releases: 19 / 19 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.0
Download size: 305 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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