R Observatory: Metrics for ChaosGame version 1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ChaosGame

1.5Package record

Chaos Game

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lea MaislingerCRAN page ↗

The main objective of the package is to enter a word of at least two letters based on which an Iterated Function System with Probabilities is constructed, and a two-dimensional fractal containing the chosen word infinitely often is generated via the Chaos Game. Additionally, the package allows to project the two-dimensional fractal on several three-dimensional surfaces and to transform the fractal into another fractal with uniform marginals.

Install

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

install.packages("ChaosGame", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-chaosgame

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-ChaosGame

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-ChaosGame

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  ChaosGame/R/ChaosGame-internal.R (.Names: 58)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,510 · ~9/day · ~281/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38730 days

92190 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ChaosGame adds 45 packages (21 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, rgl 4.0 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.10rgl colorRamps

Imports (4)

ggplot2 gridExtra plot3D RColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Lea Maislinger

Author, Maintainer since 1.5 (2025) · added in 1.5

Johannes Bartel

Author · added in 1.0

Florian Griessenberger

Author · added in 1.0

Thimo Kasper

Author · added in 1.3

Manuela Schreyer

Author

Wolfgang Trutschnig

Author

Previously maintained by Marco Tschimpke (1.4) and Thimo Kasper (1.3).

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-07-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-12-09 · diff ↗
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2022-07-05 · diff ↗
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2022-06-21 · diff ↗
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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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2021-05-11 · diff ↗
1.0
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2021-03-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4
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2018-12-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.3
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2017-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-12 · diff ↗
0.1
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2016-02-23
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-23
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 12 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ChaosGame")

Format

Maislinger, L., Bartel, J., Griessenberger, F., Kasper, T., Schreyer, M., & Trutschnig, W. (2025). ChaosGame: Chaos Game (Version 1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ChaosGame

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ChaosGame version 1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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