R Observatory: Metrics for flippant version 1.5.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

flippant

1.5.7Package record

Dithionite Scramblase Assay Analysis

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Johannes GraumannCRAN page ↗

The lipid scrambling activity of protein extracts and purified scramblases is often determined using a fluorescence-based assay involving many manual steps. flippant offers an integrated solution for the analysis and publication-grade graphical presentation of dithionite scramblase assays, as well as a platform for review, dissemination and extension of the strategies it employs. The package's name derives from a play on the fact that lipid scrambling is also sometimes referred to as 'flipping'. The package is originally published as Cotton, R.J., Ploier, B., Goren, M.A., Menon, A.K., and Graumann, J. (2017). "flippant–An R package for the automated analysis of fluorescence-based scramblase assays." BMC Bioinformatics 18, 146. DOI:10.1186/s12859-017-1542-y.

Install

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

install.packages("flippant", 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-flippant

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-flippant

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-flippant

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Johannes Graumann <johannes.graumann@uni-marburg.de>’

Problems when reading CITATION file:
  Replacing special names ‘.Names’ is deprecated; use ‘names’ instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.7

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,868 · ~17/day · ~517/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47130 days

1.2K90 days

6.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u3 autocran38 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing flippant adds 24 packages (13 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2

Imports (9)

data.table magrittrmethodsminpack.lm plyr pracma stringi (>= 1.2.3)utilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

bookdown devtools microbenchmark multipanelfigure pander roxygen2tools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Johannes Graumann

Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2016), Author

Richard Cotton

Author

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2023-10-24
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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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2021-01-29
1.5.2
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2020-05-26
message asking for corrections bounced
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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 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-21
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 204 KB

Appears in task views

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Other Omics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("flippant")

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flippant version 1.5.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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