gputools: GPU Drop-Ins for Statistics on Wide Data

GPU versions of base R statistics for data with many variables, using the NVIDIA 'CUDA' toolkit: correlation matrices (Pearson, Spearman and Kendall) and their tests, the strongest correlated pairs among tens of thousands of variables without forming the matrix, association scans with covariates as in expression quantitative trait loci studies (Shabalin 2012 <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts163>), permutation tests with Westfall-Young maxT adjustment, distance matrices, hierarchical and k-means clustering, Granger causality tests, B-spline mutual information, principal components, and least-squares fits. Results agree with the base R functions they replace. Without 'CUDA' the package installs, and its functions explain how to get a 'CUDA' build. Described in Buckner et al. (2010) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp608>.

Version: 2.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: utils
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-10-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gputools
Author: Josh Buckner [aut, cre], Mark Seligman [aut], Fan Meng [aut], Justin Wilson [ctb]
Maintainer: Josh Buckner <nullsatz at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/nullsatz/gputools/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/nullsatz/gputools
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: NVIDIA CUDA toolkit (>= 11.7); an NVIDIA GPU to run the GPU functions
Citation: gputools citation info
Materials: README, NEWS, INSTALL
CRAN checks: gputools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gputools.html , gputools.pdf
Vignettes: gputools against base R: measured timings (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: gputools_2.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: gputools_2.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): gputools_2.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): gputools_2.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): gputools_2.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): gputools_2.1.0.tgz
Old sources: gputools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: gcbd

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