R Observatory: Metrics for magic version 1.6-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

magic

1.6-1

Create and Investigate Magic Squares

44packages depend

331.8Kdownloads / year

62.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin K. S. HankinFirst published 2003-11-2426 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

62.0%

Coverage · measured lines

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-27
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 181 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 37%

Downloads

331.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #743 · ~909/day · ~27.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21.5K30 days

70.9K90 days

331.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u267 autocran5.2K conda_forge208 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ robinhankin/magic

4Stars

3Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

76Commits

2Contributors

76 commits · Last activity 2026-03-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-14 · 32026-07-07 · 4

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robinhankin/magic on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10abind

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

44direct

192indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hankin

no longer listed · 1.6-0 to 1.6-1

Package Timeline

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

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R 1.8.0 released · 2003-10-08

Package metadata

First published: 2003-11-24
Total releases: 26 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 3.5 KB / 7 files
Download size: 186 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Numerical Mathematics

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citation("magic")

Format

Hankin, R. K. S. (2022). magic: Create and Investigate Magic Squares (Version 1.6-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.magic

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for magic version 1.6-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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