R Observatory: Metrics for albatross version 0.3-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

albatross

0.3-9Package record

PARAFAC Analysis of Fluorescence Excitation-Emission Matrices

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

80.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan KrylovCRAN page ↗

Perform parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC: Hitchcock, 1927) doi:10.1002/sapm192761164 on fluorescence excitation-emission matrices: handle scattering signal and inner filter effect, scale the dataset, fit the model; perform split-half validation or jack-knifing. Modified approaches such as Whittaker interpolation, randomised split-half, and fluorescence and scattering model estimation are also available. The package has a low dependency footprint and has been tested on a wide range of R versions.

Changes in 0.3-9

Bug fixes

feemparafac now works when the effective subset of X leaves only one sample. Previously it dropped the third dimension and failed.
On R >= 4.6, bibliography generation now avoids producing invalid HTML. Thanks to Prof. Kurt Hornik for the report and diagnosis.
coef.feemsplithalf(kind = "aggtcc") used to produce harmless warnings when testing only one number of factors.

New features

The coef.feemparafac() method gains three new type arguments, "scores.sum", "scores.peak", and "scores.int". They enable comparison of score-derived values between the factors, since the raw scores depend on the arbitrary scaling of the model.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("albatross", 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-albatross

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-albatross

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-albatross

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: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-9

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 0.3-9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 24 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%21 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 63%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,011 · ~11/day · ~338/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44930 days

1.2K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on118 r2u25 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing albatross adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 630 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pracma 389 KB, multiway 175 KB, quadprog 35 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (6)

multiway CMLS pracmalatticeparallelMatrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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 (3)

Ivan Krylov

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2020)

Anastasia Drozdova

Reviewer · added in 0.3-4

Timur Labutin

Thesis advisor

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3-9Latest
record
2025-09-02 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3-8
record
2024-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
feemcorcondia
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3-7
record
2023-11-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rescale
0.3-6
record
2023-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
absindex
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3-5
record
2022-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
diverging.colours
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3-4
record
2022-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
feemindex, feemflame
0.3-2
record
2021-07-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3-1
record
2021-04-03 · diff ↗
0.3-0
record
2021-03-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
feemlist, feemgrid, write.openfluor
0.2-0
record
2020-11-30 · diff ↗

Show 3 earlier eventsHide 3 earlier events

0.1-2
record
2020-10-02 · diff ↗
0.1-1
record
2020-09-25
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-25
Total releases: 12 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Bundled data: 2.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.0 MB

Appears in task views

Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("albatross")

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

It points to 10.1016/j.chemolab.2020.104176, 10.1016/j.saa.2023.122441.

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 albatross version 0.3-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →