Brobdingnag: Very Large Numbers in R
Very large numbers in R. Real numbers are held using their natural logarithms, plus a logical flag indicating sign. Functionality for complex numbers is also provided. The package includes a vignette that gives a step-by-step introduction to using S4 methods.
| Version: | 1.3-1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: | methods, Matrix (≥ 1.5-0), graphics |
| Suggests: | cubature, testthat, knitr, markdown, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-09-12 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.Brobdingnag |
| Author: | Robin K. S. Hankin
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Robin K. S. Hankin <hankin.robin at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/RobinHankin/Brobdingnag/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL] |
| URL: | https://github.com/RobinHankin/Brobdingnag, https://robinhankin.github.io/Brobdingnag/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | Brobdingnag citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| In views: | NumericalMathematics |
| CRAN checks: | Brobdingnag results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | Brobdingnag.html , Brobdingnag.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
brobmat (source, R code) The Brobdingnag: package (source, R code) Brobdingnag: a “hello world” package using S4 methods (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | Brobdingnag_1.3-1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: Brobdingnag_1.2-9.zip, r-release: Brobdingnag_1.2-9.zip, r-oldrel: Brobdingnag_1.2-9.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): Brobdingnag_1.2-9.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): Brobdingnag_1.2-9.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Brobdingnag_1.2-9.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Brobdingnag_1.2-9.tgz |
| Old sources: | Brobdingnag archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse depends: | funpca |
| Reverse imports: | bacontrees, BGPhazard, bridgesampling, eBsc, EMC2, gmvarkit, momentuHMM, MPTinR, multibridge, multimark, uGMAR, untb |
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