R Observatory: Metrics for diagonals version 6.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

diagonals

6.4.0Package record

Block Diagonal Extraction or Replacement

3packages depend

15.9Kdownloads / year

80.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bastiaan QuastCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Several tools for handling block-matrix diagonals and similar constructs are implemented. Block-diagonal matrices can be extracted or removed using two small functions implemented here. In addition, non-square matrices are supported. Block diagonal matrices occur when two dimensions of a data set are combined along one edge of a matrix. For example, trade-flow data in the 'decompr' and 'gvc' packages have each country-industry combination occur along both edges of the matrix.

Changes in 6.4.0

redo documentation
add ORCID
switch from Travis to GitHub Actions
various URL updates

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("diagonals", 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("bquast/diagonals")

Development version from bquast/diagonals. 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-diagonals

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-diagonals

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-diagonals

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: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 6.4.0

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 6.4.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Fat Diagonals HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

15.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,180 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

3.8K90 days

15.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on335 r2u7 autocran109 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bquast/diagonals ↗Account: bquast

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

235Commits

1Commit identities

235 commits · Last activity 2022-06-19

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2022-06-01 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bquast/diagonals on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing diagonals adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

6indirect

Imports 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

HLMdiag gvc PDMIF

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Bastiaan Quast

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2015)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-10-05 · diff ↗

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0.3.0
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2015-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
block_matrix, minus_block_matrix, minus_rectangle_matrix, rectangle_matrix

added 3 exports
fatdiag<-, fatdiag, split_vector
0.2.0
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2015-05-29
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-29
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 11 KB

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citation("diagonals")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for diagonals version 6.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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