R Observatory: Metrics for nparACT version 0.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nparACT

0.9.1Package record

Non-Parametric Measures of Actigraphy Data

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15.5Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Christine BlumeCRAN page ↗

Computes interdaily stability (IS), intradaily variability (IV) & the relative amplitude (RA) from actigraphy data as described in Blume et al. (2016) <doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2016.05.006> and van Someren et al. (1999) <doi: 10.3109/07420529908998724>. Additionally, it also computes L5 (i.e. the 5 hours with lowest average actigraphy amplitude) and M10 (the 10 hours with highest average amplitude) as well as the respective start times. The flex versions will also compute the L-value for a user-defined number of minutes. IS describes the strength of coupling of a rhythm to supposedly stable zeitgebers. It varies between 0 (Gaussian Noise) and 1 for perfect IS. IV describes the fragmentation of a rhythm, i.e. the frequency and extent of transitions between rest and activity. It is near 0 for a perfect sine wave, about 2 for Gaussian noise and may be even higher when a definite ultradian period of about 2 hrs is present. RA is the relative amplitude of a rhythm. Note that to obtain reliable results, actigraphy data should cover a reasonable number of days.

Changes in 0.9.1

Changes

Exported package functions to ensure correct namespace behaviour when installing from CRAN.

Bug fixes

Fixed an error where package functions were not exported, which could lead to errors when calling high-level functions.
Fixed necessary package descriptions and optimised the code for Roxygen.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nparACT", 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-nparact

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-nparACT

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-nparACT

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.9.1

READMEYes · 201 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the nparACT package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

15.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,436 · ~42/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45830 days

1.1K90 days

15.5K1 year

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Also on86 r2u2 autocran116 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nparACT adds 21 packages (10 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

ggplot2gridstringr zootools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

actiRhythm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Christine Blume

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.9.0

Maintainer since 0.1 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Christine Blume Nayantara Santhi Manuel Schabus

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.8

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-12-16 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
nparACT_base, nparACT_base_loop, nparACT_flex, nparACT_flex_loop
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2025-09-24
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2025-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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2025-06-17
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-22
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 32 KB / 1 file
Download size: 32 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("nparACT")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1016/j.mex.2016.05.006.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nparACT version 0.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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