R Observatory: Metrics for molaR version 6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

molaR

6.0

Dental Surface Complexity Measurement Tools

1packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by James D. PampushFirst published 2015-10-2920 releasesCRAN page ↗

Surface topography calculations of Dirichlet's normal energy, relief index, surface slope, and orientation patch count for teeth using scans of enamel caps. Importantly, for the relief index and orientation patch count calculations to work, the scanned tooth files must be oriented with the occlusal plane parallel to the x and y axes, and perpendicular to the z axis. The files should also be simplified, and smoothed in some other software prior to uploading into R.

Install

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

install.packages("molaR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-molar

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-molaR

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-molaR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 25%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,205 · ~11/day · ~345/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25430 days

94190 days

4.1K1 year

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Also on128 r2u19 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 2.10alphahull Rvcg pracma htmltools

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown rgl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

JSDNE

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

James D. Pampush

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (4)

James D. Pampush

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Edward Fuselier

Author, Copyright holder · added in 4.5

Paul E. Morse

Author, Copyright holder

Alexander Q. Vining

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (4)

James D. Pampush

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Edward Fuselier

Author, Copyright holder · added in 4.5

Paul E. Morse

Author, Copyright holder

Alexander Q. Vining

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Julia M. Winchester

no longer listed · 0.1 to 4.5

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
6.0Latest
2025-11-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
5.3
2023-01-27 · diff ↗
5.2
2022-12-19 · diff ↗
5.1
2022-08-10 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-08-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-07-12
issues were not addressed in time Has ACM licence but no ACM code and does not depend on any package which does
5.0
2022-05-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
4.5
2020-03-04 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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4.4
2018-09-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
4.3
2017-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
4.2
2016-08-31 · diff ↗
4.1
2016-07-28 · diff ↗
4.0
2016-05-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-04-23 · diff ↗
3.0
2016-04-08 · diff ↗
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2016-04-06 · diff ↗
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2016-03-01 · diff ↗
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2016-02-22 · diff ↗
1.0
2016-01-26 · diff ↗
0.3
2016-01-13 · diff ↗
0.2
2015-12-11 · diff ↗
0.1
2015-10-29
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-29
Total releases: 20 / 11 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 517 KB / 4 files
Download size: 584 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Pampush, J. D., Fuselier, E., Morse, P. E., & Vining, A. Q. (2025). molaR: Dental Surface Complexity Measurement Tools (Version 6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.molaR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for molaR version 6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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