R Observatory: Metrics for packcircles version 0.3.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

packcircles

0.3.7Package record

Circle Packing

7packages depend

36.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael BedwardCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Algorithms to find arrangements of non-overlapping circles.

Changes in 0.3.7

Fix: Updated progressive packing vignette example to use ggiraph::girafe() function and fix CRAN warning (thanks to David Gohel).
Use the checkmate package to check arguments to functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("packcircles", 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("mbedward/packcircles")

Development version from mbedward/packcircles. 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-packcircles

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-packcircles

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-packcircles

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORwhether package can be installedr-release-macos-x86_64

Installation failed.
See ‘/Volumes/Builds/packages/big-sur-x86_64/results/4.6/packcircles.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.7

READMEYes · 390 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.7Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

36.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,497 · ~100/day · ~3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

6.4K90 days

36.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on608 r2u3 autocran1.1K conda_forge191 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mbedward/packcircles ↗Account: mbedward

59Stars

7Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

91Commits

2Commit identities

91 commits · Last activity 2024-11-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 13
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-28 · 582026-07-07 · 59

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mbedward/packcircles on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing packcircles adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 2.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, checkmate 247 KB, backports 29 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (2)

Rcpp checkmate

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (5)

ggiraph ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown lpSolve

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

2indirect

Imports 7

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cartogram SUNGEO ggautomap tastypie vayr ggmultiglyph PhytoIn

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Michael Bedward

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2015)

David Eppstein

Author

Author of Python code for graph-based circle packing ported to C++ for this package

Peter Menzel

Author · added in 0.2.0

Author of C code for progressive circle packing ported to C++ for this package

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.7Latest
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2024-11-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.6
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2023-09-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.5
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2022-11-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.4
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2020-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.3
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2018-09-18 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2018-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.1
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2018-01-09 · diff ↗

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0.3.0
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2017-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
circleRemoveOverlaps
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.0
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2017-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
circleLayoutVertices, circleProgressiveLayout, circleRepelLayout
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.1
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2015-07-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-26
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 3.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 327 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("packcircles")

Format

Bedward, M., Eppstein, D., & Menzel, P. (2024). packcircles: Circle Packing (Version 0.3.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.packcircles

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 packcircles version 0.3.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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