R Observatory: Metrics for cooltools version 2.33

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cooltools

2.33Package record

Practical Tools for Scientific Computation and Visualisation

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Danail ObreschkowCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides utilities for scientific computation and visualisation, with an emphasis on applications in physics and astrophysics. Functionality includes random sampling from spherical and custom distributions, information and entropy analysis, Fourier transforms, two-point correlation estimation, binning and gridding of point sets, two-dimensional interpolation, Monte Carlo integration, vector operations, coordinate transformations, physical constants, and cosmological conversions. Graphics tools support the creation and export of publication-quality plots, animations, colour scales, map projections, and bitmap images. Several of these tools were used by Obreschkow et al. (2020) doi:10.1093/mnras/staa445.

Install

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

install.packages("cooltools", 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("obreschkow/cooltools")

Development version from obreschkow/cooltools. 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-cooltools

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-cooltools

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-cooltools

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORexamplesr-oldrel-macos-arm64

Running examples in ‘cooltools-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: kde2
> ### Title: Multi-dimensional adaptive kernel density estimation
> ### Aliases: kde2
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # make a mock sample of n d-dimensional points from
> # three different components (1D line, 2D square, d-D normal distr)
> d = 3 # number of dimensions of mock point set; try to choose different values 2, 3, 4, ...
> n = 1e4 # number of particles per component
> set.seed(1)
> x = rbind(cbind(array(rep(runif(n,-1,1),2),c(n,2)),array(0,c(n,d-2))),
+           cbind(array(runif(2*n),c(n,2)),array(0,c(n,d-2))),
+           array(rnorm(d*n),c(n,d)))
> 
> # grid total projected probability density
> npixels = 500 # number of pixels along a grid side
> q = midseq(-3,3,npixels)
> f1 = outer(dnorm(q),dnorm(q),'*')/3+outer(dunif(q),dunif(q),'*')/3
> q = seq(round(npixels/3),round(npixels*2/3))
> f1[q+npixels*(q-1)] = f1[q+npixels*(q-1)]+(npixels/6)^2/length(q)/3
> 
> # recover 2D projected pdf from 3D point sample using different methods
> f2 = kde2(x, n=npixels, xlim=c(-3,3), ylim=c(-3,3), algorithm='basic', probability=TRUE)$field
> f3 = kde2(x, n=npixels, xlim=c(-3,3), ylim=c(-3,3), algorithm='kdefast', probability=TRUE)$field
> f4 = kde2(x, n=npixels, xlim=c(-3,3), ylim=c(-3,3), algorithm='kdenn', probability=TRUE)$field
Error in kde2(x, n = npixels, xlim = c(-3, 3), ylim = c(-3, 3), algorithm = "kdenn",  : 
  Package EBImage is needed to run kde2 in with kdenn or manual algorithm.
Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-13
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.33

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 92includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%51 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,270 · ~10/day · ~318/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52430 days

1.3K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on384 r2u18 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

obreschkow/cooltools ↗Account: obreschkow

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

96Commits

3Commit identities

96 commits · Last activity 2026-09-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 140

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/obreschkow/cooltools on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cooltools adds 20 packages (16 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, sp 4.3 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (17)

plotrix celestial data.table pracmautilspng jpegMASSraster sp cubature bit64 randtoolbox Rcpp FNN gitcreds pak

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

EBImage hdf5r

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Danail Obreschkow

Author, Maintainer since 1.6 (2022)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.33Latest
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2026-09-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
angularmomentum, blur, distradius, getgit, kappacorotation, linfun, streamlines
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.18
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2025-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
error, progress, readhdf5, sigmoid, sortlist, userattributes, writehdf5
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-07-19
2.4
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2024-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
jackknife
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-01-12
issues were not corrected despite reminders
2.1.27
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2023-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
gradient, grf, inertia, is.equal, moments, smartround, stretch
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0
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2022-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
griddata2
1.8
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2022-08-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.7
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2022-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ngon, smoothfun
1.6
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2022-02-07
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-07
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 178 KB / 1 file
Download size: 293 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cooltools")

Format

Obreschkow, D. (2026). cooltools: Practical Tools for Scientific Computation and Visualisation (Version 2.33) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cooltools

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 cooltools version 2.33 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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