R Observatory: Metrics for gifti version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gifti

0.9.0

Reads in 'Neuroimaging' 'GIFTI' Files with Geometry Information

6packages dependsuggested by 6

18Kdownloads / year

84.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John MuschelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to read in the geometry format under the 'Neuroimaging' 'Informatics' Technology Initiative ('NIfTI'), called 'GIFTI' https://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti/. These files contain surfaces of brain imaging data.

Changes in 0.9.0

Fixing defunct issues with rgl package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gifti", 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("muschellij2/gifti")

Development version from muschellij2/gifti. 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-gifti

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-gifti

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-gifti

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: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.0

READMEYes · 27 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 44%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Reading GIFTI files in R HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

18K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,102 · ~49/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

4.1K90 days

18K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on212 r2u4 autocran870 conda_forge84 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

muschellij2/gifti ↗Account: muschellij2

4Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

71Commits

7Commit identities

71 commits · Last activity 2026-02-05

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2023-12-21 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/muschellij2/gifti on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

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

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-07-26

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gifti adds 7 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, R.oo 375 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

xml2 base64enc R.utilstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rglgrDevicestestthat knitr rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

4indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ciftiTools threeBrain VertexWiseR cifti ieegio neuromapr

Suggests, most downloaded first

freesurferformats fMRItools fMRIscrub templateICAr BayesBrainMap ggseg.meshes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Muschelli

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.1 (2017)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.0Latest
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2026-02-06 · current release · diff ↗
R
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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.8.0
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2020-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
writeGIfTI, write_gifti, writegii
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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
0.7.5
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2018-02-01 · diff ↗
0.7.4
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2017-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
decompress_gii, is_gifti
0.7.1
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2017-05-05
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-05
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 19 KB

Appears in task views

Medical Image Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gifti")

Format

Muschelli, J. (2026). gifti: Reads in 'Neuroimaging' 'GIFTI' Files with Geometry Information (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gifti

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 gifti version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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