R Observatory: Metrics for handwriter version 3.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

handwriter

3.2.4Package record

Handwriting Analysis in R

2packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

59.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephanie ReindersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence

Perform statistical writership analysis of scanned handwritten documents. Webpage provided at: https://github.com/CSAFE-ISU/handwriter.

Changes in 3.2.4

Minor improvements and fixes

Fixed get_writer_profiles() and plot_writer_profiles() so that they are exported functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("handwriter", 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("CSAFE-ISU/handwriter")

Development version from CSAFE-ISU/handwriter. 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-handwriter

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-handwriter

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-handwriter

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: 8.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.2.4

READMEYes · 1,690 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.2.4Citation fileNo

Help pages: 50 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 79%33 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

analyze-writing HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,574 · ~11/day · ~348/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62630 days

1.3K90 days

4.2K1 year

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Also on362 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

csafe-isu/handwriter ↗Organization: CSAFE-ISU

31Stars

14Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

1,088Commits

18Commit identities

License file reads as AGPL-3.0 · DESCRIPTION declares GPL-3 · 1,088 commits · Last activity 2025-04-30 · -3.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.2.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.2.4 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 302026-10-17 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/csafe-isu/handwriter 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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-01-22

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing handwriter adds 48 packages (29 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (17)

doParallel dplyr foreach ggplot2 igraph lpSolve magick mc2d png purrr Rcpp reshape2 Rfast rjags stringr tidyr tidyselect

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat coda withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

handwriterRF handwriterApp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Stephanie Reinders

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.2 (2023) · added in 2.0.2

Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence

Author, Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.0.2

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor · added in 2.0.2

Previously maintained by James Taylor (1.0.0 to 1.0.1).

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2.4Latest
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2025-01-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get_cluster_fill_rates, get_writer_profiles, plot_writer_profiles
3.2.3
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2024-11-26 · diff ↗
3.2.1
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2024-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plot_graphs
3.2.0
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2024-10-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
AddLetterImages, SaveAllLetterPlots

added 1 export
plot_cluster_centers
3.1.1
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2024-06-15 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2024-06-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
make_clustering_templates

added 1 export
make_clustering_template
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.0.0
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2024-03-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_cluster_fill_counts, get_clusters_batch
2.0.3
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2023-12-08 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2023-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
create_words, plotColorNodes, plotWord, process_words, runHandwritingViewer

added 19 exports
about_variable, analyze_questioned_documents, calculate_accuracy, drop_burnin, extractGraphs, fit_model, format_template_data, get_credible_intervals, get_posterior_probabilities, make_clustering_templates, plot_cluster_fill_counts, plot_cluster_fill_rates, plot_credible_intervals, plot_posterior_probabilities, plot_trace, processDocument, process_batch_dir, process_batch_list, read_and_process
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
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2021-08-16 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2021-08-05

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-05
Total releases: 11 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 661 KB / 9 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("handwriter")

Format

Reinders, S., Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence, Baez-Santiago, F., Berry, N., González, J., & Taylor, J. (2025). handwriter: Handwriting Analysis in R (Version 3.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.handwriter

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for handwriter version 3.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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