Deriv

4.3.0

Symbolic Differentiation

33packages depend

3.5Mdownloads / year

56.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Serguei SokolFirst published 2014-12-2326 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

R-based solution for symbolic differentiation. It admits user-defined function as well as function substitution in arguments of functions to be differentiated. Some symbolic simplification is part of the work.

Install

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

install.packages("Deriv", 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("sgsokol/Deriv")

Development version from sgsokol/Deriv. 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-deriv

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

# 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-Deriv

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

56.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 312 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

3.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #200 · ~9.7K/day · ~295.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sgsokol/deriv

44Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

243Commits

4Contributors

243 commits · Last activity 2026-07-22 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

Rcpp

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

33direct

950indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Serguei Sokol

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0

Authors (2)

Serguei Sokol

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0

Andrew Clausen

Author

Contributors (1)

Andreas Rappold

Contributor · added in 4.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-23
Total releases: 26 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 38 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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