sparselu: Sparse LU Decomposition via SuiteSparse

Provides an interface to the SuiteSparse UMFPACK LU factorisation routines for sparse matrices stored in compressed column format. Implements the algorithm described in Davis (2004) <doi:10.1145/992200.992206>.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 0.11.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: Matrix, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
OS_type: unix
Published: 2026-02-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sparselu (may not be active yet)
Author: Kevin Michael Frick [aut, cre], Timothy A. Davis [ctb] (affiliation: SuiteSparse Project, contribution: SuiteSparse libraries and collaborators listed in dir(system.file("doc", "SuiteSparse", package = "Matrix"), pattern = "License", full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE))
Maintainer: Kevin Michael Frick <kmfrick at proton.me>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: SuiteSparse (UMFPACK, AMD, SuiteSparse_config)
Materials: README
CRAN checks: sparselu results [issues need fixing before 2026-03-06]

Documentation:

Reference manual: sparselu.html , sparselu.pdf

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Package source: sparselu_0.2.0.tar.gz
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