R Observatory: Metrics for hexDensity version 1.4.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexDensity

1.4.10

Fast Kernel Density Estimation with Hexagonal Grid

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Quoc Hoang NguyenFirst published 2024-09-235 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Kernel density estimation with hexagonal grid for bivariate data. Hexagonal grid has many beneficial properties like equidistant neighbours and less edge bias, making it better for spatial analyses than the more commonly used rectangular grid. Carr, D. B. et al. (1987) doi:10.2307/2289444. Diggle, P. J. (2010) doi:10.1201/9781420072884. Hill, B. (2017) https://blog.bruce-hill.com/meandering-triangles. Jones, M. C. (1993) doi:10.1007/BF00147776.

Install

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

install.packages("hexDensity", 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("ChenLaboratory/hexDensity")

Development version from ChenLaboratory/hexDensity. 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-hexdensity

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-hexDensity

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-hexDensity

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 183 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 43%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,311 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

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24430 days

82690 days

3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ chenlaboratory/hexdensity

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

127Commits

1Contributors

127 commits · Last activity 2025-09-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-12-18 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/chenlaboratory/hexdensity on 2026-08-23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

hexbin spatstat.geomgridgrDevicesmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Quoc Hoang Nguyen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Quoc Hoang Nguyen

Author, Maintainer

Yunshun Chen

Author · added in 1.4.5

Contributors (3)

Dan Carr

Contributor

binning routine ported by Nicholas Lewin-Koh

Contributor

Martin Maechler

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lewin-Koh

no longer listed · 1.4.4 to 1.4.10

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.10Latest
2025-09-28 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.9
2025-06-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.8
2025-02-10 · diff ↗
1.4.5
2024-10-10 · diff ↗
1.4.4
2024-09-23
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-23
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 21 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hexDensity")

Format

Nguyen, Q. H., Carr, D., Chen, Y., Lewin-Koh, b. r. p. b. N., & Maechler, M. (2025). hexDensity: Fast Kernel Density Estimation with Hexagonal Grid (Version 1.4.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hexDensity

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hexDensity version 1.4.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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