R Observatory: Metrics for fsbrain version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fsbrain

1.0.0Package record

Managing and Visualizing Brain Surface Data

0packages depend

8.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim SchäferCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides high-level access to neuroimaging data from standard software packages like 'FreeSurfer' https://freesurfer.net/ on the level of subjects and groups. Load morphometry data, surfaces and brain parcellations based on atlases. Mask data using labels, load data for specific atlas regions only, and visualize data and statistical results directly in 'R'.

Install

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

install.packages("fsbrain", 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("dfsp-spirit/fsbrain")

Development version from dfsp-spirit/fsbrain. 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-fsbrain

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-fsbrain

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-fsbrain

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: 7.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-23
OK13 OK2026-06-21

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-20
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 454 (201 internal)
Examples that run: 23%28 run in a plain check · 93 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 42%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 1%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,613 · ~23/day · ~705/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72330 days

1.8K90 days

8.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on144 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dfsp-spirit/fsbrain ↗Account: dfsp-spirit

77Stars

15Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

1,696Commits

3Commit identities

neuroimagingfreesurfervisualizationbrainrmrisurfacevoxel

1,696 commits · Last activity 2026-09-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-02 · 732026-08-22 · 77

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dfsp-spirit/fsbrain on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guideIssue templates

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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Automation and maintenance (1)

Renovate

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fsbrain adds 54 packages (29 with compiled code, 58 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, magick 4.4 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

freesurferformats pkgfilecache rgl squash fields viridis magickmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

knitr rmarkdown scimesh testthat misc3d oro.nifti RColorBrewer Rvcg igraph pracma withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Tim Schäfer