R Observatory: Metrics for brainR version 1.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

brainR

1.7.0Package record

Helper Functions to 'misc3d' and 'rgl' Packages for Brain Imaging

1packages dependsuggested by 1

5.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John MuschelliCRAN page ↗

This includes functions for creating 3D and 4D images using 'WebGL', 'rgl', and 'JavaScript' commands. This package relies on the X toolkit ('XTK', https://github.com/xtk/X#readme).

Changes in 1.7.0

Fixing the \link issues with packages.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("brainR", 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-brainr

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-brainR

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-brainR

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: ‘John Muschelli <muschellij2@gmail.com>’

Problems when reading CITATION file:
  Replacing special names ‘.Names’ is deprecated; use ‘names’ instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.0

READMEYes · 61 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,459 · ~15/day · ~461/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34730 days

98690 days

5.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on180 r2u17 autocran201 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing brainR adds 34 packages (19 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, oro.nifti 5.0 MB, rgl 4.0 MB.

Depends (3)

rgl misc3d oro.nifti

Imports (1)

grDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

servr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

brainKCCA

Suggests, most downloaded first

neurobase

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Muschelli

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.5.1

Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

John Muschelli III

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-09
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 3.7 MB

Appears in task views

Medical Image Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("brainR")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 brainR version 1.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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