freealg

1.1-8

The Free Algebra

5packages depend

8.9Kdownloads / year

98.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinFirst published 2019-09-2310 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The free algebra in R with non-commuting indeterminates. Uses 'disordR' discipline (Hankin, 2022, doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2210.03856). To cite the package in publications please use Hankin (2022) doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2211.04002.

Install

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

install.packages("freealg", 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("RobinHankin/freealg")

Development version from RobinHankin/freealg. 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-freealg

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-freealg

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.00

98.9%

Coverage · measured lines

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 343 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 5%

Downloads

8.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,209 · ~24/day · ~745/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ robinhankin/freealg

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438Commits

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License GPL-2.0 · 438 commits · Last activity 2026-06-11

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/freealg on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (3)

Rcpp partitions disordR

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

knitr testthat magrittr markdown rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

6indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hankin

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.1-8

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-09-23
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 580 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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