R Observatory: Metrics for ambient version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ambient

1.0.3Package record

A Generator of Multidimensional Noise

1packages dependsuggested by 5

32.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generation of natural looking noise has many application within simulation, procedural generation, and art, to name a few. The 'ambient' package provides an interface to the 'FastNoise' C++ library and allows for efficient generation of perlin, simplex, worley, cubic, value, and white noise with optional perturbation in either 2, 3, or 4 (in case of simplex and white noise) dimensions.

Changes in 1.0.3

Upkeep

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ambient", 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("thomasp85/ambient")

Development version from thomasp85/ambient. 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-ambient

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-ambient

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-ambient

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-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 1.0.3

READMEYes · 214 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 64%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 29%

How these are measured

Downloads

32.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,178 · ~90/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

8K90 days

32.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on450 r2u19 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/ambient ↗Account: thomasp85

100Stars

9Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

91Commits

5Commit identities

91 commits · Last activity 2025-12-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 244
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 74

Stars over time

2025-05-22 · 992026-07-07 · 100

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/ambient on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-04

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

Lint workflowAirVS Code

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ambient adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (5)

cligraphicsgrDevicesrlangstats

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (1)

covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

aRtsy

Suggests, most downloaded first

ggpattern gridpattern rayrender rayshader isocubes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018), Author

Jordan Peck

Author

Developer of FastNoise

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
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2025-12-04 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
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2022-09-08 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2022-08-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
noise_blue
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
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2020-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 30 exports
billow, blend, cap, clamped, curl_noise, fbm, fracture, gen_checkerboard, gen_cubic, gen_perlin, gen_simplex, gen_spheres, gen_value, gen_waves, gen_white, gen_worley, gradient_noise, grid_cell, long_grid, normalise, normalize, reflect, ridged, rotate, shear, slice_at, spectral_gain, stretch, trans_affine, translate
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2018-08-30
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-30
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 677 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ambient")

Format

Pedersen, T. L., & Peck, J. (2025). ambient: A Generator of Multidimensional Noise (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ambient

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ambient version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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