R Observatory: Metrics for pcutils version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pcutils

0.2.8Package record

Some Useful Functions for Statistics and Visualization

4packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chen PengCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Offers a range of utilities and functions for everyday programming tasks. 1.Data Manipulation. Such as grouping and merging, column splitting, and character expansion. 2.File Handling. Read and convert files in popular formats. 3.Plotting Assistance. Helpful utilities for generating color palettes, validating color formats, and adding transparency. 4.Statistical Analysis. Includes functions for pairwise comparisons and multiple testing corrections, enabling perform statistical analyses with ease. 5.Graph Plotting, Provides efficient tools for creating doughnut plot and multi-layered doughnut plot; Venn diagrams, including traditional Venn diagrams, upset plots, and flower plots; Simplified functions for creating stacked bar plots, or a box plot with alphabets group for multiple comparison group.

Changes in 0.2.8

Added

added check_directory_structure function <2025-03-27, Thu>

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pcutils", 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("Asa12138/pcutils")

Development version from Asa12138/pcutils. 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-pcutils

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-pcutils

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-pcutils

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: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.8

READMEYes · 618 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.8Citation fileNo

Help pages: 97 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 68%39 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition) · 13 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 63%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,903 · ~15/day · ~466/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47330 days

1.4K90 days

5.6K1 year

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Also on108 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

asa12138/pcutils ↗Account: Asa12138

33Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

113Commits

1Commit identities

r

113 commits · Last activity 2025-06-26 · +3.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.9, ahead of CRAN 0.2.8 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 262026-10-08 · 33

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/asa12138/pcutils 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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

68 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pcutils adds 32 packages (18 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

dplyr magrittr ggplot2gridstatsutilsgrDevicesreshape2 scalestoolstidyr tibble RColorBrewergraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MetaNet pctax ReporterScore plot4fun

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Chen Peng

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.8Latest
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2025-03-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
check_directory_structure, get_legend2
0.2.7
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2024-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
distance2df, hebing2, igraph_translator, list_to_dataframe, make_py_pkg
0.2.6
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2024-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
df2distance, download_ncbi_genome_file, ggmosaic, match_df
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-19
0.2.5
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2024-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
get_doi, my_synteny

added 2 exports
scale_color_pc, scale_fill_pc
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-03-10
issues were not corrected in time
0.2.3
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2024-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
DNA_plot, Olympic_rings, chunlian, ggheatmap, give_you_a_rose, tax_wordcloud, triangp

added 5 exports
ggplot_translator, how_to_set_font_for_plot, prepare_package, split_text, update_NEWS_md
0.2.1
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2024-01-09 · diff ↗
0.2.0.1
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2024-01-09 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2024-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 37 exports
DNA_plot, Olympic_rings, areaplot, chunlian, copy_df, df2link, download2, generate_labels, ggheatmap, gghist, ggplot_lim, give_you_a_rose, group_test, gsub.data.frame, guolv, how_to_set_options, how_to_use_sbatch, lm_coefficients, make_gitbook, multireg, my_circle_packing, my_sunburst, my_synteny, my_treemap, my_voronoi_treemap, pre_number_str, rm_low, sample_map, search_browse, set_pcutils_config and 7 more
0.1.0
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2023-06-13
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-13
Total releases: 9 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 266 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

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citation("pcutils")

Format

Peng, C. (2025). pcutils: Some Useful Functions for Statistics and Visualization (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pcutils

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pcutils version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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