R Observatory: Metrics for ETRep version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ETRep

1.2.1Package record

Analysis of Elliptical Tubes Under the Relative Curvature Condition

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mohsen Taheri ShalmaniCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Analysis of elliptical tubes with applications in biological modeling. The package is based on the references: Taheri, M., Pizer, S. M., & Schulz, J. (2024) "The Mean Shape under the Relative Curvature Condition." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics doi:10.1080/10618600.2025.2535600 and arXiv doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.01043. Mohsen Taheri Shalmani (2024) "Shape Statistics via Skeletal Structures", PhD Thesis, University of Stavanger, Norway doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.34500.23685. Key features include constructing discrete elliptical tubes, calculating transformations, validating structures under the Relative Curvature Condition (RCC), computing means, and generating simulations. Supports intrinsic and non-intrinsic mean calculations and transformations, size estimation, plotting, and random sample generation based on a reference tube. The intrinsic approach relies on the interior path of the original non-convex space, incorporating the RCC, while the non-intrinsic approach uses a basic robotic arm transformation that disregards the RCC.

Changes in 1.2.1

Updates
The package description has been updated to include the published version of the paper *"The Mean Shape under the Relative Curvature Condition"* in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (DOI: <doi:10.1080/10618600.2025.2535600>).
The plotting issue raised by macOS users due to the lack of native OpenGL support has been fixed by introducing the helper functions etrep_open3d() and etrep_show3d(). These functions allow plotting to fall back to a WebGL viewer and open the scene in a browser when a native rgl device is not available.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ETRep", 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("MohsenTaheriShalmani/Elliptical_Tubes")

Development version from MohsenTaheriShalmani/Elliptical_Tubes. 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-etrep

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-ETRep

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19 (3 internal)
Examples that run: 67%8 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 42%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,368 · ~7/day · ~221/mo

Releases R versions

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56330 days

96390 days

2.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

mohsentaherishalmani/elliptical_tubes ↗Account: MohsenTaheriShalmani

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

162Commits

2Commit identities

generalized-cylinderimage-processingroboticssimulationstatistical-shape-analysiselliptical-tube

License file reads as MIT · 162 commits · Last activity 2025-10-13

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-01 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mohsentaherishalmani/elliptical_tubes on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Windows

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ETRep adds 107 packages (55 with compiled code, 101 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (10)

rgl shapes Morpho matlib RSpincalc rotations Rvcg fields truncnorm htmlwidgets

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Mohsen Taheri Shalmani

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.0

Stephen M. Pizer

Author · added in 1.1.0

Jörn Schulz

Author · added in 1.1.0

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mohsen Taheri

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1Latest
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2025-09-27 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2025-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 12 exports
check_Tube_Legality, create_Elliptical_Tube, elliptical_Tube_Euclideanization, intrinsic_Distance_Between2tubes, intrinsic_Transformation_Elliptical_Tubes, intrinsic_mean_tube, nonIntrinsic_Distance_Between2tubes, nonIntrinsic_Transformation_Elliptical_Tubes, nonIntrinsic_mean_tube, plot_Elliptical_Tube, simulate_etube, tube_Surface_Mesh
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
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2024-12-05 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2024-11-04
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-04
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 4 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ETRep")

Format

Taheri Shalmani, M., Pizer, S. M., & Schulz, J. (2025). ETRep: Analysis of Elliptical Tubes Under the Relative Curvature Condition (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ETRep

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ETRep version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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