R Observatory: Metrics for nara version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nara

1.0.2Package record

Native Raster Image Tools

0packages depend

1.5Kdownloads / year

46.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mike ChengCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Native rasters are a core R image format which use a compact color representation. This color representation closely aligns with graphics device internals meaning that these images can be rendered quickly. This package provides functions to quickly create, manipulate and composite native rasters.

Changes in 1.0.2

For CRAN: Fix lto/asan issues.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nara", 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("coolbutuseless/nara")

Development version from coolbutuseless/nara. 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-nara

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-nara

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-nara

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-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK7 OK2026-05-28

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 38 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%34 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

Animation HTML
Blitting HTML
Convert images to/from native raster image format HTML
Technical Notes HTML
Triangles HTML
Using Masks HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,828 · ~4/day · ~129/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22730 days

78790 days

1.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on78 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

coolbutuseless/nara ↗Account: coolbutuseless

63Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

161Commits

1Commit identities

gfxgraphicspackagepkgr

161 commits · Last activity 2026-05-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 302
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 32

Stars over time

2025-08-01 · 632026-07-07 · 63

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/coolbutuseless/nara on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dev Container

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nara adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 38 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: colorfast 38 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

colorfast

LinkingTo (1)

colorfast

Suggests (7)

testthat jpeg fastpng png knitr rmarkdown magick

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Mike Cheng

Julien Vernay

Contributor

Author of public domain code for thick polylines

Releases (2)

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1.0.2Latest
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2026-05-28 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2026-05-27
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-27
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: The included 'deer' sprites are by Calciumtrice and licensed under CC BY 3.0. See 'inst/LICENSE-deer.txt' for more details. The included bitmap font 'spleen' was created by Frederic Cambus (c) 2018-2024. See 'inst/LICENSE-spleen.txt' for full LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 19 KB / 3 files
Download size: 332 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("nara")

Format

Cheng, M., & Vernay, J. (2026). nara: Native Raster Image Tools (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nara

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nara version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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