R Observatory: Metrics for FITSio version 2.1-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FITSio

2.1-6Package record

FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Utilities

0packages depend

42.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew HarrisCRAN page ↗

Utilities to read and write files in the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format, a standard format in astronomy (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS for more information). Present low-level routines allow: reading, parsing, and modifying FITS headers; reading FITS images (multi-dimensional arrays); reading FITS binary and ASCII tables; and writing FITS images (multi-dimensional arrays). Higher-level functions allow: reading files composed of one or more headers and a single (perhaps multidimensional) image or single table; reading tables into data frames; generating vectors for image array axes; scaling and writing images as 16-bit integers. Known incompletenesses are reading random group extensions, as well as complex and array descriptor data types in binary tables.

Install

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

install.packages("FITSio", 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-fitsio

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-FITSio

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-FITSio

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Andrew Harris <harris@astro.umd.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Andrew",
                    family = "Harris",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "harris@astro.umd.edu")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1-6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 85%

How these are measured

Downloads

42.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,081 · ~117/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41130 days

1.4K90 days

42.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u3 autocran130 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FITSio adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (0)

none

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 (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Andrew Harris

Maintainer since 1.0-2 (2008)

Releases (8)

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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addComment, addHistory, addKwv, axVec, closeHdr, delKwv, makeFITSimHdr, modVal, newKwv, parseHdr, readFITS, readFITSarray, readFITSbintable, readFITSheader, readFrameFromFITS, writeFITSim, writeFITSim16i
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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2008-08-06
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2008-08-06
Total releases: 8 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 56 KB

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Chemometrics and Computational Physics

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FITSio version 2.1-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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