R Observatory: Metrics for OpenSpecy version 1.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OpenSpecy

1.5.3

Analyze, Process, Identify, and Share Raman and (FT)IR Spectra

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

83.3%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Win CowgerFirst published 2021-03-3117 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Raman and (FT)IR spectral analysis tool for plastic particles and other environmental samples (Cowger et al. 2021, doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00123). With read_any(), Open Specy provides a single function for reading individual, batch, or map spectral data files like .asp, .csv, .jdx, .spc, .spa, .0, and .zip. process_spec() simplifies processing spectra, including smoothing, baseline correction, range restriction and flattening, intensity conversions, wavenumber alignment, and min-max normalization. Spectra can be identified in batch using an onboard reference library (Cowger et al. 2020, doi:10.1177/0003702820929064) using match_spec(). A Shiny app is available via run_app() or online at https://www.openanalysis.org/openspecy/.

Install

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

install.packages("OpenSpecy", 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("wincowgerDEV/OpenSpecy-package")

Development version from wincowgerDEV/OpenSpecy-package. 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-openspecy

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-OpenSpecy

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-OpenSpecy

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

83.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 265 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 93%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 16%

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,646 · ~10/day · ~317/mo

Releases R versions

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27730 days

1K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wincowgerdev/openspecy-package

43Stars

12Forks

23Open issues

3Open PRs

21Releases

970Commits

6Contributors

License CC-BY-4.0 · 970 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · +2.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 292026-07-24 · 43

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wincowgerdev/openspecy-package on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Funding

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (13)

methodsdata.table jsonlite yaml caTools hyperSpec mmand plotly digest signal glmnet jpeg shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

knitr rmarkdown testthat shinyjs shinyWidgets bs4Dash dplyr DT ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (29)

Maintainer (1)

Win Cowger

Maintainer, Author, Data contributor

Authors (6)

Win Cowger

Maintainer, Author, Data contributor

Andrea Faltynkova

Author, Data contributor · added in 1.0.2

Nick Leong

Author · added in 1.0.2

Hannah Sherrod

Author · added in 1.0.7

Zacharias Steinmetz

Author

Hazel Vaquero

Author · added in 1.4.0

Contributors (21)

Philipp Baumann

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

Hannah De Frond

Contributor, Data contributor

Andrew B Gray

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Hannah Hapich

Contributor

Orestis Herodotou

Contributor

Aleksandra Karapetrova

Contributor, Data contributor, Reviewer · added in 1.0.2

Christine M Knauss

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Rachel Kozloski

Contributor, Data contributor · added in 1.0.3

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Katherine Lasdin

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Jennifer Lynch

Contributor, Data contributor

Laura A. T. Markley

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Keenan Munno

Contributor, Data contributor

Clare Murphy-Hagan

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

Mary C Norris

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Shreyas Patankar

Contributor, Data contributor · added in 1.0.2

Sebastian Primpke

Contributor, Data contributor

Chelsea Rochman

Contributor, Data contributor

Pierre Roudier

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

Samiksha Singh

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

Vesna Teofilovic

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Cristiane Vidal

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

Funders (2)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Funder · added in 1.0.2

Possibility Lab

Funder · added in 1.0.2

Reviewers (1)

Aleksandra Karapetrova

Contributor, Data contributor, Reviewer · added in 1.0.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Andrew Gray

no longer listed · 0.8.2 to 0.9.5

Package Timeline

17 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 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-31
Total releases: 17 / 5 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 261 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("OpenSpecy")

Format

Cowger, W., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Possibility Lab, Baumann, P., De Frond, H., Faltynkova, A., Gray, A. B., Hapich, H., Herodotou, O., Karapetrova, A., Knauss, C. M., Kozloski, R., Lasdin, K., Leong, N., Lynch, J., Markley, L. A. T., Munno, K., Murphy-Hagan, C., Norris, M. C., Patankar, S., Primpke, S., Rochman, C., Roudier, P., Sherrod, H., Singh, S., Steinmetz, Z., Teofilovic, V., Vaquero, H., & Vidal, C. (2025). OpenSpecy: Analyze, Process, Identify, and Share Raman and (FT)IR Spectra (Version 1.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.OpenSpecy

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for OpenSpecy version 1.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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