R Observatory: Metrics for celestial version 1.5.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

celestial

1.5.8

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

2packages depend

24.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron RobothamFirst published 2012-12-137 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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ERROR2026-04-18
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Documentation

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Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 52%

Downloads

24.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,761 · ~67/day · ~2K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

cooltools magicaxis

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Aaron Robotham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Aaron Robotham

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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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 v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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