R Observatory: Metrics for activPAL version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

activPAL

0.1.4Package record

Advanced Processing and Chart Generation from activPAL Events Files

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

51.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Craig SpeirsCRAN page ↗

Contains functions to generate pre-defined summary statistics from activPAL events files https://www.palt.com/. The package also contains functions to produce informative graphics that visualise physical activity behaviour and trends. This includes generating graphs that align physical activity behaviour with additional time based observations described by other data sets, such as sleep diaries and continuous glucose monitoring data.

Install

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

install.packages("activPAL", 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-activpal

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-activPAL

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-activPAL

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,766 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

Releases R versions

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38130 days

1.1K90 days

3.7K1 year

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Also on97 r2u52 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing activPAL adds 111 packages (54 with compiled code, 70 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

dplyr ggplot2 tidyr lubridate magrittrmethodsdevtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Craig Speirs

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.3 (2019)

David Loudon

Contributor

Kate Lyden

Contributor

Douglas Maxwell

Contributor

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-18
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 280 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("activPAL")

Format

Speirs, C., Loudon, D., Lyden, K., & Maxwell, D. (2025). activPAL: Advanced Processing and Chart Generation from activPAL Events Files (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.activPAL

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for activPAL version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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