deSolve

1.42

Solvers for Initial Value Problems of Differential Equations ('ODE', 'DAE', 'DDE')

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Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas PetzoldtFirst published 2008-06-0161 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions that solve initial value problems of a system of first-order ordinary differential equations ('ODE'), of partial differential equations ('PDE'), of differential algebraic equations ('DAE'), and of delay differential equations. The functions provide an interface to the FORTRAN functions 'lsoda', 'lsodar', 'lsode', 'lsodes' of the 'ODEPACK' collection, to the FORTRAN functions 'dvode', 'zvode' and 'daspk' and a C-implementation of solvers of the 'Runge-Kutta' family with fixed or variable time steps. The package contains routines designed for solving 'ODEs' resulting from 1-D, 2-D and 3-D partial differential equations ('PDE') that have been converted to 'ODEs' by numerical differencing.

Install

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

install.packages("deSolve", 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("tpetzoldt/deSolve")

Development version from tpetzoldt/deSolve. 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-desolve

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-deSolve

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-25
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tpetzoldt/desolve

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Dependencies

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2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.3.0

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Reverse dependencies

136direct

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and 88 more packages.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Petzoldt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Thomas Petzoldt

Author, Maintainer

R. Woodrow Setzer

Author

Karline Soetaert

Author

Contributors (8)

Peter N. Brown

Contributor · added in 1.25

George D. Byrne

Contributor · added in 1.25

Ernst Hairer

Contributor · added in 1.25

Alan C. Hindmarsh

Contributor · added in 1.25

Cleve Moler

Contributor · added in 1.25

Linda R. Petzold

Contributor · added in 1.25

Youcef Saad

Contributor · added in 1.25

Clement W. Ulrich

Contributor · added in 1.25

Listed in earlier versions (2)

odepack authors

no longer listed · 1.10-7 to 1.24

Woodrow Setzer

no longer listed · 1.10-7 to 1.10-8

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-01
Total releases: 61 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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