R Observatory: Metrics for chromConverter version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chromConverter

0.9.0

Chromatographic File Converter

0packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

30.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ethan BassFirst published 2022-04-194 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Reads chromatograms from binary formats into R objects. Currently supports conversion of 'Agilent ChemStation', 'Agilent MassHunter', 'Agilent OpenLab', 'Shimadzu LabSolutions', 'ThermoRaw', 'Varian Workstation', and 'Waters Empower' files as well as various other formats. In addition to its internal parsers, chromConverter contains bindings to parsers in external libraries, such as 'Aston' https://github.com/bovee/aston, 'Entab' https://github.com/bovee/entab, 'rainbow' https://rainbow-api.readthedocs.io/, and 'ThermoRawFileParser' https://github.com/compomics/ThermoRawFileParser.

Install

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

install.packages("chromConverter", 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("ethanbass/chromConverter")

Development version from ethanbass/chromConverter. 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-chromconverter

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-chromConverter

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-chromConverter

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 7.48

30.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

16

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,579 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 44%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,621 · ~15/day · ~467/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38530 days

1.7K90 days

5.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on202 r2u26 autocran33 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ethanbass/chromconverter

55Stars

4Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

691Commits

2Contributors

chromatographyr-packagehplchplc-dadhplc-uvcheminformaticsmetabolomicsmetabolomics-data

License GPL-3.0 · 691 commits · Last activity 2026-08-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-20 · 352026-08-13 · 55

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ethanbass/chromconverter on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Funding

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

bitops fs purrr readxl reticulate stringr tidyrutilsRaMS tibble xml2 bit64 data.table base64enc jsonlite digest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

entab ncdf4 pbapply testthat mzR chromConverterExtraTests

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ethan Bass

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ethan Bass

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

James Dillon

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.5

Evan Shi

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.5

Copyright holders (2)

James Dillon

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.5

Evan Shi

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.5

Package Timeline

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

0.9.0Latest
2026-05-31 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.7.5
2025-03-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.1
2022-07-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
2022-04-19
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-19
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: ethanbass.github.io, ethanbass.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("chromConverter")

Format

Bass, E., Dillon, J., & Shi, E. (2026). chromConverter: Chromatographic File Converter (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.chromConverter

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for chromConverter version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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