R Observatory: Metrics for forceR version 1.0.20

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forceR

1.0.20Package record

Force Measurement Analyses

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter T. RührCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

For cleaning and analysis of graphs, such as animal closing force measurements. 'forceR' was initially written and optimized to deal with insect bite force measurements, but can be used for any time series. Includes a full workflow to load, plot and crop data, correct amplifier and baseline drifts, identify individual peak shapes (bites), rescale (normalize) peak curves, and find best polynomial fits to describe and analyze force curve shapes.

Changes in 1.0.20

release of v1.0.19 to CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("forceR", 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("Peter-T-Ruehr/forceR")

Development version from Peter-T-Ruehr/forceR. 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-forcer

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-forceR

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-forceR

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: 2.9 min · r-release-macos-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 1.0.20

READMEYes · 200 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.20Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 34
Examples that run: 91%20 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

forceR HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,483 · ~8/day · ~251/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29030 days

79190 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

Pete-s-Lab/forceR ↗Organization: Pete-s-Lab

Moved from peter-t-ruehr/forcer.

0Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

110Commits

2Commit identities

110 commits · Last activity 2024-03-24 · Default branch at 1.0.21, ahead of CRAN 1.0.20 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Forks over time

2022-12-15 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/peter-t-ruehr/forcer on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing forceR adds 37 packages (23 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (10)

dplyrgraphicsgrDevicesfilesstrings magrittr purrr readr rollstatsstringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat

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 (2)

Peter T. Rühr

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.13 (2022)

Alexander Blanke

Contributor · added in 1.0.18

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.20Latest
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2023-03-01 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.18
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2023-02-27 · diff ↗
1.0.15
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2022-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
peak_duration_max_force
1.0.14
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2022-05-10 · diff ↗
1.0.13
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2022-05-02
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-02
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 107 KB / 9 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("forceR")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.13909.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forceR version 1.0.20 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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