R Observatory: Metrics for camcorder version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

camcorder

0.1.0Package record

Record Your Plot History

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

65.1%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ellis HughesCRAN page ↗

Record and generate a 'gif' of your 'R' sessions plots. When creating a visualization, there is inevitably iteration and refinement that occurs. Automatically save the plots made to a specified directory, previewing them as they would be saved. Then combine all plots generated into a 'gif' to show the plot refinement over time.

Changes in 0.1.0

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Most of the functionality of the R package has been developed including:
Capturing ggplot2/patchwork plots automatically
Capturing other graphic outputs with record_polaroid()
Preview outputs in the viewer as they are saved
Generate a GIF of the history of recorded tables

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("camcorder", 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-camcorder

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-camcorder

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) Recording.Rd:112: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
   112 | Stop recording images with {camcorder}.
       |                            ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-12
ERROR12 NOTE, 2 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 432 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,277 · ~20/day · ~604/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46030 days

1.4K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on87 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing camcorder adds 29 packages (19 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, gifski 6.9 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

ggplot2 gifskitoolsmagick rsvg jsonlite rlanggrDevicessvglite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

knitr rmarkdown markdown ragggridcovr testthat (>= 3.0.0)patchwork withr dplyr systemfonts scales extrafont

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Ellis Hughes

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Georgios Karamanis

Contributor

Cédric Scherer

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0Latest
record
2022-10-03 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-03
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("camcorder")

Format

Hughes, E., Karamanis, G., & Scherer, C. (2022). camcorder: Record Your Plot History (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.camcorder

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

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 camcorder version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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