R Observatory: Metrics for pannotator version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pannotator needs configr, which is past its CRAN deadline of Oct 12 to fix its check problems.

pannotator

1.1.0Package record

Visualisation and Annotation of 360 Degree Imagery

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

65.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nunzio KnerrCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a customisable R 'shiny' app for immersively visualising, mapping and annotating panospheric (360 degree) imagery. The flexible interface allows annotation of any geocoded images using up to 4 user specified drop-down menus. The app uses 'leaflet' to render maps that display the geo-locations of images and Panellum https://pannellum.org/, a lightweight panorama viewer for the web, to render images in virtual 360 degree viewing mode. Key functions include the ability to draw on & export parts of 360 images for downstream applications. Users can also draw polygons and points on map imagery related to the panoramic images and export them for further analysis. Downstream applications include using annotations to train Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) models and geospatial modelling and analysis of camera based survey data.

Changes in 1.1.0

Refactored the app shell into a modular workspace with dedicated Mapping, Image, Annotation, and Annotation Table panels.
Added a persistent Settings workflow that can render below the workspace or in a left/right drawer, with updated layout schematics and single-scroll drawer behavior.
Reworked Main Settings into accordion sections and moved shared actions and notices above the settings tabs.
Added editable lookup and username table workflows in Settings using rhandsontable, with lookup accordions and on-demand table loading.
Added a full-width Annotation Table panel for reviewing and editing annotation records in one place.
Added project YAML export from Settings, including support for launching with run_app(projectSettingsFile = ...) and an export-only Google Maps API key for project YAML files.
Added ExifTool dependency checks and install support in Settings, plus KMZ loading guards when ExifTool is unavailable.
Replaced popup-driven guidance with persistent inline notices and tour-ready UI structure.
Improved panel layout behavior, equal-height top panels, annotation card controls, drawer styling, and KMZ runtime file handling.
Added the sourcekmz field to annotation records and exports so annotations record which KMZ file each image came from.
Replaced magrittr, stringr, and readr usage with native pipe and base R helpers where practical.
Expanded automated tests and updated the vignette text to reflect the current settings and panel workflow.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pannotator", 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("NunzioKnerr/pannotator_package_source")

Development version from NunzioKnerr/pannotator_package_source. 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-pannotator

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-pannotator

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-pannotator

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-23
NOTE8 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-17

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 357 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

pannotator HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,073 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39230 days

1K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nunzioknerr/pannotator_package_source ↗Account: NunzioKnerr

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

30Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 30 commits · Last activity 2026-05-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-22 · 32026-08-08 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nunzioknerr/pannotator_package_source on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pannotator adds 102 packages (52 with compiled code, 98 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (29)

bslib colourpicker config configr dplyr exiftoolr geojsonsf ggplot2 golemgraphicsgrDeviceshtmltools htmlwidgets jpeg jsonify jsonlite leaflet leafpm rintrojs rhandsontable scales sf shiny shinyFiles shinyhelper shinyjs shinyWidgetstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

httpuv knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

configrdeadline passed Oct 12

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Nunzio Knerr

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0.4 (2024)

Robert Godfree

Author

Matthew Petroff

Contributor

CSIRO

Copyright holder

Releases (3)

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1.1.0Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-03-16
1.0.1
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2026-03-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-02-19
requires archived package 'leaflet.extras'
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-11
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Download size: 3.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pannotator")

Format

Knerr, N., CSIRO, Godfree, R., & Petroff, M. (2026). pannotator: Visualisation and Annotation of 360 Degree Imagery (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pannotator

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

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 pannotator version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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