TMB | R Observatory

Overview

About

Maintained by Kasper KristensenFirst published 2015-10-1550 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

With this tool, a user should be able to quickly implement complex random effect models through simple C++ templates. The package combines 'CppAD' (C++ automatic differentiation), 'Eigen' (templated matrix-vector library) and 'CHOLMOD' (sparse matrix routines available from R) to obtain an efficient implementation of the applied Laplace approximation with exact derivatives. Key features are: Automatic sparseness detection, parallelism through 'BLAS' and parallel user templates.

Install

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

install.packages("TMB", 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("kaskr/adcomp")

Development version from kaskr/adcomp. 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-tmb

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-TMB

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-TMB

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 25%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 57%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

608K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #502 · ~1.7K/day · ~50.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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48.6K30 days

159K90 days

608K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.9K r2u168 autocran24.6K conda_forge124 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ kaskr/adcomp

193Stars

90Forks

70Open issues

4Open PRs

20Releases

1,572Commits

34Contributors

1,572 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-15 · 1872026-07-07 · 193

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kaskr/adcomp on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (5)

graphicsmethodsstatsutilsMatrix

LinkingTo (2)

MatrixRcppEigen

Suggests (2)

numDerivparallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

60direct

17indirect

and 54 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,258 (62%)Rd 1,669 (20%)C++ 997 (12%)C 597 (7%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S39

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 128 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

154 30 exported

Complexity

7.2 avg / 128 max

Call network

154 nodes / 142 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (10)

Casper Berg

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Mollie Brooks

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Alex Forrence

Contributor · added in 1.7.6

Martin Maechler

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Arni Magnusson

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Theo Michelot

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Christoffer Moesgaard Albertsen

Contributor · added in 1.7.9

Cole Monnahan

Contributor · added in 1.6.5

Show 2 more contributors

Anders Nielsen

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Hans Skaug

Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Copyright holders (2)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Brad Bell

Copyright holder · added in 1.6.2

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-15
Total releases: 50 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 750 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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