roptim

0.1.7

General Purpose Optimization in R using C++

8packages depend

43.5Kdownloads / year

22.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yi PanFirst published 2018-09-308 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Perform general purpose optimization in R using C++. A unified wrapper interface is provided to call C functions of the five optimization algorithms ('Nelder-Mead', 'BFGS', 'CG', 'L-BFGS-B' and 'SANN') underlying optim().

Install

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

install.packages("roptim", 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("ypan1988/roptim")

Development version from ypan1988/roptim. 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-roptim

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-roptim

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-roptim

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

22.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

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

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

43.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,584 · ~119/day · ~3.6K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ypan1988/roptim

22Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

47Commits

5Contributors

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47 commits · Last activity 2025-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ypan1988/roptim on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (2)

R.rsp testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

12indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yi Pan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yi Pan

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-30
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 170 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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