R Observatory: Metrics for nexus version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nexus

0.6.1Package record

Sourcing Archaeological Materials by Chemical Composition

2packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

84.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicolas FrerebeauCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: CNRS and Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Exploration and analysis of compositional data in the framework of Aitchison (1986, ISBN: 978-94-010-8324-9). This package provides tools for chemical fingerprinting and source tracking of ancient materials.

Changes in 0.6.1

Bugfixes & changes

Add as.matrix() for NumericMatrix class.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nexus", 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-nexus

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-nexus

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-nexus

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: 3.0 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-01
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-06-19
OK13 OK2026-06-13

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-04
OK13 OK2026-05-14
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.1

READMEYes · 1,305 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes

Help pages: 73 (13 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%55 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 41%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,134 · ~10/day · ~289/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35530 days

1.1K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on190 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/tesselle/nexus ↗

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

282Commits

1Commit identities

archaeological-sciencearchaeologyarchaeometrycompositional-dataprovenance-studiesr-package

282 commits · Last activity 2026-06-23

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/tesselle/nexus is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nexus adds 4 packages (0 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: khroma 2.7 MB, dimensio 772 KB, isopleuros 408 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5dimensio

Imports (9)

arkhegraphicsgrDevicesisopleuros khromaMASSmethodsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

clusterfolio fontquiver igraph knitr markdown rsvg svglite tinysnapshot tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tesselle kinesis

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Nicolas Frerebeau

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Anne Philippe

Author

CNRS

Funder

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

Funder

Brice Lebrun

art

Logo designer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Arthur Leck

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.3.0

Releases (7)

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0.6.1Latest
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2026-06-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0
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2025-06-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
remove_constant, sparsity
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.0
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2025-04-07 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2025-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
palette_size_range

added 5 exports
is_composition, is_grouped, is_logratio, palette_size_diverging, palette_size_sequential
0.3.0
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2024-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
color, palette_color_continuous, palette_color_discrete, palette_color_picker, palette_line, palette_shape, palette_size_range, sparsity
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
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2024-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
cdt, pca, replace_NA, replace_zero

added 1 export
remove_constant
0.1.0
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2023-11-29
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-29
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 4.6 KB / 8 files
Download size: 821 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("nexus")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nexus version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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