R Observatory: Metrics for RCircos version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RCircos

1.2.2Package record

Circos 2D Track Plot

1packages depend

9.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hongen ZhangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A simple and flexible way to generate Circos 2D track plot images for genomic data visualization is implemented in this package. The types of plots include: heatmap, histogram, lines, scatterplot, tiles and plot items for further decorations include connector, link (lines and ribbons), and text (gene) label. All functions require only R graphics package that comes with R base installation.

Install

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

install.packages("RCircos", 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("hzhanghenry/RCircos")

Development version from hzhanghenry/RCircos. 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-rcircos

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-RCircos

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-RCircos

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: ‘Hongen Zhang <hzhang.henry@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Hongen",
                    family = "Zhang",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "hzhang.henry@gmail.com")
as necessary.

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · 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 1.2.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 96includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 12%6 run in a plain check · 44 never run
Exported functions with examples: 70%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 1%

Also includes 15 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Using_RCircos PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

9.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,726 · ~27/day · ~827/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58930 days

1.7K90 days

9.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on173 r2u7 autocran2.1K conda_forge480 bioconda62 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

hzhanghenry/rcircos ↗Account: hzhanghenry

6Stars

2Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

1Commit identities

23 commits · Last activity 2021-12-19

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-02-08 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/hzhanghenry/rcircos on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PACVr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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

Hongen Zhang

Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-17
Total releases: 15 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 691 KB / 15 files
Download size: 1.8 MB

Appears in task views

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Other Omics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("RCircos")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1186/1471-2105-14-244.

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 RCircos version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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