R Observatory: Metrics for Rvcg version 0.25

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rvcg

0.25Package record

Manipulations of Triangular Meshes Based on the 'VCGLIB' API

17packages dependsuggested by 5

37.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan SchlagerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Operations on triangular meshes based on 'VCGLIB'. This package integrates nicely with the R-package 'rgl' to render the meshes processed by 'Rvcg'. The Visualization and Computer Graphics Library (VCG for short) is an open source portable C++ templated library for manipulation, processing and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes. The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the software tools of the Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council Institute ISTI https://vcg.isti.cnr.it/, like 'metro' and 'MeshLab'. The 'VCGLIB' source is pulled from trunk https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib and patched to work with options determined by the configure script as well as to work with the header files included by 'RcppEigen'.

Install

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

install.packages("Rvcg", 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("zarquon42b/Rvcg")

Development version from zarquon42b/Rvcg. 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-rvcg

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-Rvcg

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-Rvcg

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: 16.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.25

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · does not mention 0.25Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 55 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%34 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 9%

How these are measured

Downloads

37.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,422 · ~103/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.8K90 days

37.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on783 r2u6 autocran2.4K conda_forge198 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

zarquon42b/rvcg ↗Account: zarquon42b

25Stars

12Forks

3Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

841Commits

6Commit identities

841 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2023-04-22 · 252026-07-07 · 25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zarquon42b/rvcg on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rvcg adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (4)

RcppgrDevicesstatsutils

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppEigen RcppArmadillo

Suggests (2)

Morpho rgl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

4indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 16

Suggested by 5

Show all 22 packagesHide all 22 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Morpho BoneDensityMapping ETRep Arothron molaR espadon jacobi habtools pressuRe morphomap doolkit ashapesampler RRmorph JFM JSDNE Toothnroll skiftiTools

Suggests, most downloaded first

rayrender rayvertex RRphylo fsbrain nat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Stefan Schlager

Girinon Francois

Contributor · added in 0.14

Tim Schaefer

Contributor · added in 0.20

Zhengjia Wang

Contributor · added in 0.23

Listed in earlier versions (2)

the authors of Vcglib for the included version of VCGLIB

no longer listed · 0.6-3

the authors of VCGLIB for the included version of the code

no longer listed · 0.7 to 0.13.1.2

Releases (32)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3Latest
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2014-01-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.25
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2025-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
raysearchMulti
0.24
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2024-09-20 · diff ↗

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0.23
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2024-06-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vcgSmoothImplicit
0.22.2
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2021-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
vcgDijkstra, vcgFaceNormals, vcgGeodesicPath, vcgGeodist, vcgIsotropicRemeshing, vcgVertexNeighbors
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vcgVolume
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2017-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
vcgObjWrite, vcgOffWrite, vcgWrlWrite
0.15
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2017-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
meshInfo, nfaces, nverts
0.14
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2016-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
checkFaceOrientation, checkNormOrient, vcgArea, vcgBallPivoting, vcgClostOnKDtreeFromBarycenters, vcgCreateKDtree, vcgCreateKDtreeFromBarycenters, vcgKmeans, vcgMetro, vcgSearchKDtree, vcgSubdivide
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2015-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
vcgBox, vcgCone, vcgDodecahedron, vcgHexahedron, vcgIcosahedron, vcgOctahedron, vcgSphere, vcgSphericalCap, vcgSquare, vcgTetrahedron
0.12.2
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0.11
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0.10
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2014-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
vcgStlWrite, vcgUniformRemesh
0.9
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2014-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
meshintegrity
0.8
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2014-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
setRays, vcgBary, vcgClostKD, vcgIsosurface, vcgKDtree
0.7.1
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2014-01-29 · diff ↗
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2014-01-23 · diff ↗
0.6-3
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2014-01-21
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-21
Total releases: 32 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: see files COPYRIGHTS for detailed information
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 931 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.4 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("Rvcg")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rvcg version 0.25 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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