R Observatory: Metrics for photobiologyInOut version 0.4.33

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

photobiologyInOut

0.4.33Package record

Read Spectral and Logged Data from Foreign Files

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

51.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pedro J. AphaloCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions for reading, and in some cases writing, foreign files containing spectral data from spectrometers and their associated software, output from daylight simulation models in common use, and some spectral data repositories. As well as functions for exchange of spectral data with other R packages. Part of the 'r4photobiology' suite, Aphalo P. J. (2015) doi:10.19232/uv4pb.2015.1.14.

Changes in 0.4.33

Rename example files in extdata using names more consistently starting with

the brand name or program name. Files are used in examples and unit tests which

have been updated with the new file names.

Add function read_asd_txt() for importing spectral energy irradiance,

reflectance or transmittance data acquired with ASD spectrometers and converted

from binary to text with software from ASD.

Update the vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("photobiologyInOut", 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("aphalo/photobiologyinout")

Development version from aphalo/photobiologyinout. 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-photobiologyinout

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-photobiologyInOut

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-photobiologyInOut

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: 3.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.33

READMEYes · 1,142 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.4.33Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 35includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%26 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 66%

Vignettes (1)

User Guide

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,507 · ~16/day · ~474/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69930 days

1.5K90 days

5.7K1 year

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Also on86 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

aphalo/photobiologyinout ↗Account: aphalo

0Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

321Commits

3Commit identities

321 commits · Last activity 2026-05-12 · Default branch at 0.4.33.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.33 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2022-01-28 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/aphalo/photobiologyinout on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing photobiologyInOut adds 49 packages (28 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, colorSpec 3.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2.0photobiology

Imports (16)

methodstoolsutilsstatsSunCalcMeeus stringr lubridate anytime tibble dplyr tidyr tidyselect(>= 1.2.1)readr readxl colorSpec (>= 1.8-0)jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

spacesXYZ hyperSpec pavo (>= 2.9.0)fda.usc knitr rmarkdown (>= 2.29)ggplot2 ggspectra photobiologyWavebands testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Pedro J. Aphalo

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.4 (2016)

Glenn Davis

Contributor · added in 0.4.14

Titta K. Kotilainen

Contributor · added in 0.4.7

Releases (30)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.33Latest
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2026-03-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_asd_txt
0.4.32
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2025-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_oo_ovirrad
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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0.4.28-1
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added 4 exports
qtuv_clouds, qtuv_m_s.e.irrad, qtuv_s.e.irrad, read_CIE_csv
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fdata2mspct, fdata2spct, mspct2fdata, spct2fdata
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-10-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_spectrapen_csv
0.4.25
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2022-08-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
as.colorSpec
0.4.24
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2022-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
read_cid_spectravue_csv, read_foreign2mspct, spct_CCT, spct_CRI, spct_SSI
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
read_li180_txt, read_m_li180_txt, read_wasatch_csv
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.4.17-1
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2018-09-27 · diff ↗ ·
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read_oo_jazpc
0.4.16
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2018-08-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_fmi2mspct
0.4.15
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2018-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
read_qtuv_txt, read_tuv_usrout2mspct, read_yoctopuce_csv
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
mat2mspct, mspct2mat

added 1 export
as.colorSpec
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
read_ASTER_txt, read_FReD_csv
0.4.12
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2016-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
read_libradtran_vesa

added 2 exports
read_uvspec_disort, read_uvspec_disort_vesa
0.4.11
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2016-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_csi_dat
0.4.10
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2016-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
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read_avaspec_xls
0.4.9
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2016-08-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
mat2mspct, mspct2mat
0.4.6
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2016-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
chroma_spct2colorSpec, colorSpec2chroma_spct, colorSpec2mspct, colorSpec2spct, hyperSpec2spct, mspct2colorSpec, read_oo_pidata, rspec2spct, spct2colorSpec, spct2hyperSpec
0.4.4
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2016-05-24
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-24
Total releases: 30 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("photobiologyInOut")

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

It points to 10.19232/uv4pb.2015.1.14.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for photobiologyInOut version 0.4.33 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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