R Observatory: Metrics for mosaicCalc version 0.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mosaicCalc

0.6.4Package record

R-Language Based Calculus Operations for Teaching

0packages dependsuggested by 3

28.5Kdownloads / year

36.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel KaplanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Software to support the introductory *MOSAIC Calculus* textbook https://www.mosaic-web.org/MOSAIC-Calculus/), one of many data- and modeling-oriented educational resources developed by Project MOSAIC (https://www.mosaic-web.org/). Provides symbolic and numerical differentiation and integration, as well as support for applied linear algebra (for data science), and differential equations/dynamics. Includes grammar-of-graphics-based functions for drawing vector fields, trajectories, etc. The software is suitable for general use, but intended mainly for teaching calculus.

Install

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

install.packages("mosaicCalc", 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("ProjectMOSAIC/mosaicCalc")

Development version from ProjectMOSAIC/mosaicCalc. 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-mosaiccalc

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-mosaicCalc

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-mosaicCalc

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Daniel Kaplan <kaplan@macalester.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Daniel", "T."),
                      family = "Kaplan",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "kaplan@macalester.edu"),
               person(given = "Randall",
                      family = "Pruim",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "rpruim@calvin.edu"),
               person(given = c("Nicholas", "J."),
                      family = "Horton",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "nhorton@amherst.edu"),
               person(given = "Daniel",
                      family = "Kaplan",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "kaplan@macalester.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-02
ERROR9 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.4

READMEYes · 402 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 64 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 83%20 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 66%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (3)

`{mosaicCalc HTML
Beginners' Guide to Calculus with R HTML
Instructors' Guide HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

28.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,476 · ~78/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.3K30 days

6.4K90 days

28.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u11 autocran985 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

projectmosaic/mosaiccalc ↗Organization: ProjectMOSAIC

15Stars

4Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

2,560Commits

11Commit identities

2,560 commits · Last activity 2026-02-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.5.9004, ahead of CRAN 0.6.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 128
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-25 · 152026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/projectmosaic/mosaiccalc on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mosaicCalc adds 100 packages (54 with compiled code, 102 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggformula 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

calculus Deriv dplyr ggformula ggplot2 gluegrDevicesMASSMatrixmetR mosaicCore mosaic orthopolynom rlang Ryacas spstatstibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr palmerpenguins rmarkdown cubature plotly mosaicData

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

mosaicCore fastR2 MMAC

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Daniel T. Kaplan

Randall Pruim

Nicholas J. Horton

Maintainer since 0.5.1 (2020), previously Randall Pruim (0.5.0)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.4Latest
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2024-07-26 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-16
0.6.1
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2024-03-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-01-24
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.0
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2022-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
numerical_integration

added 44 exports
%dot%, %onto%, %perp%, Integrate, Iterate, PE_fun1, PE_fun2, Picket, Zeros, argM, as_magnitude, bind_params, bounds, box_set, connector, contour_plot, df2matrix, domain, equality_constraint, flow_field, fourier_M, fourier_set, gradient_plot, inequality_constraint, inscribed_circle, interactive_plot, is_in_domain, legendre_M, legendre_set, makeODE and 14 more
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-05-07
0.5.1
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2020-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
symbolicAntiD, symbolicD, symbolicInt
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-07
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.5.0
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2017-07-27
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-27
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 860 KB / 30 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mosaicCalc version 0.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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