bigmemory

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael J. KaneFirst published 2008-06-2347 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create, store, access, and manipulate massive matrices. Matrices are allocated to shared memory and may use memory-mapped files. Packages 'biganalytics', 'bigtabulate', 'synchronicity', and 'bigalgebra' provide advanced functionality.

Install

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

install.packages("bigmemory", 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("kaneplusplus/bigmemory")

Development version from kaneplusplus/bigmemory. 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-bigmemory

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-bigmemory

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

48.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

197.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #893 · ~540/day · ~16.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kaneplusplus/bigmemory

133Stars

24Forks

37Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

345Commits

13Contributors

345 commits · Last activity 2026-06-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kaneplusplus/bigmemory on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (5)

bigmemory.srimethodsutilsRcpp uuid

LinkingTo (3)

BH uuid Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat remotes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

48direct

22indirect

and 19 more packages.

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Michael J. Kane

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Michael J. Kane

Author, Maintainer

Charles Determan

Author · added in 4.6.0

John W. Emerson

Author

Peter Haverty

Author · added in 4.5.8

Listed in earlier versions (2)

and Peter Haverty

no longer listed · 4.4.5 to 4.4.6

and Charles Determan Jr.

no longer listed · 4.5.8 to 4.5.36

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-23
Total releases: 47 / 18 yrs
License: LGPL-3 | Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 71 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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