R Observatory: Metrics for activity version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

activity

1.3.4Package record

Animal Activity Statistics

1packages dependsuggested by 1

12.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcus RowcliffeCRAN page ↗

Provides functions to express clock time data relative to anchor points (typically solar); fit kernel density functions to animal activity time data; plot activity distributions; quantify overall levels of activity; statistically compare activity metrics through bootstrapping; evaluate variation in linear variables with time (or other circular variables).

Install

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

install.packages("activity", 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-activity

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-activity

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-activity

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: ‘Marcus Rowcliffe <marcus.rowcliffe@ioz.ac.uk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Marcus",
                    family = "Rowcliffe",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "marcus.rowcliffe@ioz.ac.uk")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-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 1.3.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 35%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,543 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

3K90 days

12.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103 r2u38 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing activity adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 23 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pbapply 23 KB.

Depends (1)

methods

Imports (1)

pbapply

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ct

Suggests, most downloaded first

Distance

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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

Marcus Rowcliffe

Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Releases (8)

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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
1.3.4Latest
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2023-09-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-03-02
1.3.3
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2023-03-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_suntimes
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-02-27
requires archived package 'insol'
1.3.2
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2022-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
dvonm, trigmolen
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.3.1
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2021-02-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3
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2019-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ovl5

added 6 exports
cmean, gettime, ovl4, solartime, transtime, wrap
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2
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2019-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
rvmkern, yfromx

added 3 exports
density2, ovl5, redf

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1
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2016-09-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.0
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2014-09-29
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-29
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 187 KB / 2 files
Download size: 197 KB

Cite

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citation("activity")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for activity version 1.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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