bigalgebra

3.1.0

'BLAS' and 'LAPACK' Routines for Native R Matrices and 'big.matrix' Objects

3packages depend

9.4Kdownloads / year

81.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederic BertrandFirst published 2014-04-1612 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides arithmetic functions for R matrix and 'big.matrix' objects as well as functions for QR factorization, Cholesky factorization, General eigenvalue, and Singular value decomposition (SVD). A method matrix multiplication and an arithmetic method -for matrix addition, matrix difference- allows for mixed type operation -a matrix class object and a big.matrix class object- and pure type operation for two big.matrix class objects.

Install

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

install.packages("bigalgebra", 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("fbertran/bigalgebra")

Development version from fbertran/bigalgebra. 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-bigalgebra

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-bigalgebra

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fbertran/bigalgebra

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26 commits · Last activity 2026-03-24

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Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

bigmemory

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (3)

bigmemory BH Rcpp

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

plmmr bigPLScox fusedMGM

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.0

Authors (4)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.0

John W. Emerson

Author · added in 1.0.0

Michael J. Kane

Author

Bryan Lewis

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

and John W. Emerson

no longer listed · 0.8.4 to 0.8.4.2

Package Timeline

12 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.1.0Latest
2026-03-24 · current release · diff ↗
3.0.0
2025-10-05 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2025-09-08 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2025-08-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.2
2024-09-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.1
2023-12-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.0
2022-04-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.1
2021-05-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-12
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-05-03
check problems were not corrected in time _N is a reserved identifier

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1.0.0
2021-04-19 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-02-01
0.8.4.2
2019-12-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.8.4.1
2018-12-21 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2018-12-21
no response to request for corrections
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.8.4
2014-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-04-16
Total releases: 12 / 12 yrs
License: LGPL-3 | Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 71 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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