R Observatory: Metrics for NGLVieweR version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NGLVieweR

1.4.0

Interactive 3D Visualization of Molecular Structures

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Niels van der VeldenFirst published 2021-06-012 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an 'htmlwidgets' https://www.htmlwidgets.org/ interface to 'NGL.js' http://nglviewer.org/ngl/api/. 'NGLvieweR' can be used to visualize and interact with protein databank ('PDB') and structural files in R and Shiny applications. It includes a set of API functions to manipulate the viewer after creation in Shiny.

Install

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

install.packages("NGLVieweR", 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("nvelden/NGLVieweR")

Development version from nvelden/NGLVieweR. 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-nglviewer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-NGLVieweR

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-NGLVieweR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

97%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 236 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,674 · ~16/day · ~498/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28830 days

1.1K90 days

6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nvelden/nglviewer

54Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

85Commits

2Contributors

nglviewerpdbprotein-data-bankshiny-applicationsshinyrngl

85 commits · Last activity 2026-05-02

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nvelden/nglviewer on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

htmlwidgets magrittrtoolsshiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr webshot markdown rmarkdown colourpicker

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Niels van der Velden

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Niels van der Velden

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Alexander Rose

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.0Latest
2024-11-22 · current release · diff ↗
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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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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.1
2021-06-01
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-01
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("NGLVieweR")

Format

van der Velden, N., & Rose, A. (2024). NGLVieweR: Interactive 3D Visualization of Molecular Structures (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NGLVieweR

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 NGLVieweR version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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