gym

0.1.0

Provides Access to the OpenAI Gym API

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2.3Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Paul HendricksFirst published 2016-10-251 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

OpenAI Gym is a open-source Python toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. This is a wrapper for the OpenAI Gym API, and enables access to an ever-growing variety of environments. For more details on OpenAI Gym, please see here: https://github.com/openai/gym. For more details on the OpenAI Gym API specification, please see here: https://github.com/openai/gym-http-api.

Install

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

install.packages("gym", 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("paulhendricks/gym-R")

Development version from paulhendricks/gym-R. 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-gym

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-gym

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-gym

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 53 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 106 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 5%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paulhendricks/gym-r

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27 commits · Last activity 2017-07-01

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.1

Imports (2)

httr jsonlite

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none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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People & History

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Paul Hendricks

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Paul Hendricks

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-25
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.1
Download size: 7.5 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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