R Observatory: Metrics for celestial version 1.5.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

celestial

1.5.8Package record

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

2packages depend

19.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron RobothamCRAN page ↗

Contains a number of common astronomy utility functions for cosmology and angular coordinates.

Install

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

install.packages("celestial", 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-celestial

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-celestial

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-celestial

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: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%19 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 52%

How these are measured

Downloads

19.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,211 · ~53/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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1.2K30 days

3.7K90 days

19.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on891 r2u9 autocran2.5K conda_forge146 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing celestial adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, pracma 389 KB, NISTunits 168 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.00RANN NISTunits pracma

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

plotrix igraph

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

3indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

magicaxis cooltools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Aaron Robotham

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-13
Total releases: 7 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.00
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 53 KB

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Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("celestial")

Format

Robotham, A. (2025). celestial: Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions (Version 1.5.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.celestial

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for celestial version 1.5.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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