R Observatory: Metrics for hexsession version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexsession

0.1.0Package record

Create a Tile of Logos for Loaded Packages

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

46.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luis D. Verde ArregoitiaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creates a responsive HTML file with tiled hexagonal logos for packages in an R session. Tiles can be also be generated for a custom set of packages specified with a character vector. Output can be saved as a static screenshot in PNG format using a headless browser.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission.
make_tile() and snap_tile() gain an output_dir parameter (default: tempdir()). Previously the intermediate HTML and supporting files were written to a temp_hexsession/ folder in the working directory. To restore the old behaviour, pass output_dir = getwd(). The path to the HTML output is always returned by make_tile() and printed as a message when the viewer is not available.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hexsession", 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("luisDVA/hexsession")

Development version from luisDVA/hexsession. 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-hexsession

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-hexsession

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-hexsession

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-03-31

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 620 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,242 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33730 days

89190 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

luisdva/hexsession ↗Account: luisDVA

65Stars

3Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

56Commits

2Commit identities

56 commits · Last activity 2026-04-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-16 · 592026-07-07 · 65

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/luisdva/hexsession on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hexsession adds 27 packages (19 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: magick 4.4 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

base64enc chromote jsonlite magick purrr htmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown rsvg testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-03-30 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 5.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hexsession")

Format

Verde Arregoitia, L. D. (2026). hexsession: Create a Tile of Logos for Loaded Packages (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hexsession

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 hexsession version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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