R Observatory: Metrics for magic version 1.6-1-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

magic

1.6-1-1Package record

Create and Investigate Magic Squares

41packages dependsuggested by 2

320Kdownloads / year

61.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A collection of functions for the manipulation and analysis of arbitrarily dimensioned arrays. The original motivation for the package was the development of efficient, vectorized algorithms for the creation and investigation of magic squares and high-dimensional magic hypercubes.

Install

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

install.packages("magic", 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("RobinHankin/magic")

Development version from RobinHankin/magic. 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-magic

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-magic

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-magic

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: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-27
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6-1-1

READMEYes · 181 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.6-1-1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 57includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%57 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 37%

Vignettes (1)

A vignette for the magic package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

320K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #713 · ~877/day · ~26.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27.8K30 days

73K90 days

320K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.7K r2u325 autocran5.9K conda_forge337 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robinhankin/magic ↗Account: RobinHankin

5Stars

3Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

77Commits

2Commit identities

77 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14 · +25% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-14 · 32026-09-27 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/magic on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-14, before release 1.6-1-1 (2026-09-25)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing magic adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 21 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: abind 21 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2abind

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

41direct

198indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 37

Suggested by 2

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

gap regmedint

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer since 1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hankin

no longer listed · 1.6-0 to 1.6-1-1

Releases (27)

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-11-24
Total releases: 27 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 3.5 KB / 7 files
Download size: 176 KB

Appears in task views

Numerical Mathematics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("magic")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for magic version 1.6-1-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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