R Observatory: Metrics for circhelp version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

circhelp

1.1

Circular Analyses Helper Functions

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

15.7%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrey ChetverikovFirst published 2024-07-041 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Light-weight functions for computing descriptive statistics in different circular spaces (e.g., 2pi, 180, or 360 degrees), to handle angle-dependent biases, pad circular data, and more. Specifically aimed for psychologists and neuroscientists analyzing circular data. Basic methods are based on Jammalamadaka and SenGupta (2001) doi:10.1142/4031, removal of cardinal biases is based on the approach introduced in van Bergen, Ma, Pratte, & Jehee (2015) doi:10.1038/nn.4150 and Chetverikov and Jehee (2023) doi:10.1038/s41467-023-43251-w.

Install

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

install.packages("circhelp", 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("achetverikov/circhelp")

Development version from achetverikov/circhelp. 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-circhelp

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-circhelp

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-circhelp

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR4NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

15.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-08-09
8 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-07-06
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ERROR2026-07-05
7 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-04
8 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-27
7 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 5 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-05-10
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WARNING2026-05-09
7 OK · 5 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
8 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 120 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 30%

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,566 · ~7/day · ~227/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17030 days

67490 days

2.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ achetverikov/circhelp

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

106Commits

1Contributors

License CC0-1.0 · 106 commits · Last activity 2026-08-08

Stars over time

2024-06-07 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/achetverikov/circhelp on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 4.1.0statsdata.table ggplot2

Imports (4)

gamlssMASSmathjaxr patchwork

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat circular knitr rmarkdown BAMBImgcvragg

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andrey Chetverikov

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Andrey Chetverikov

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Eline Van Geert

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-04
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 151 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("circhelp")

Format

Chetverikov, A., & Van Geert, E. (2026). circhelp: Circular Analyses Helper Functions (Version 1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.circhelp

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for circhelp version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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