R Observatory: Metrics for HelpersMG version 2026.8.24

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

HelpersMG

2026.8.24Package record

Tools for Various R Functions Helpers

5packages depend

8.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc GirondotCRAN page ↗

Contains miscellaneous functions useful for managing 'NetCDF' files (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF), get moon phase and time for sun rise and fall, tide level, analyse and reconstruct periodic time series of temperature with irregular sinusoidal pattern, show scales and wind rose in plot with change of color of text, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian MCMC analysis, plot graphs or boxplot with error bars, search files in disk by there names or their content, read the contents of all files from a folder at one time.

Changes in 2026.8.24

New CRAN version - 2026.8.24 (2026-08-24)

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("HelpersMG", 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-helpersmg

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-HelpersMG

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-HelpersMG

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-28
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2026.8.24

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2026.8.24Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 101includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 19%19 run in a plain check · 82 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,266 · ~23/day · ~710/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

82030 days

2K90 days

8.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on174 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing HelpersMG adds 18 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (6)

R >= 4.1MASSrlang codaMatrixggplot2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

lme4 RNetCDF ncdf4 maps fields shiny ppcor pbmcapply pbapplyparallelvisNetwork igraph shinyWidgets cranlogs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

phenology embryogrowth alien BoneProfileR CSeQTL

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Marc Girondot

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2015)

Releases (49)

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2026.8.24Latest
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-07
Total releases: 49 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 526 KB

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Girondot, M. (2026). HelpersMG: Tools for Various R Functions Helpers (Version 2026.8.24) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.HelpersMG

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