R Observatory: Metrics for photobiologyWavebands version 0.5.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

photobiologyWavebands

0.5.4Package record

Waveband Definitions for UV, VIS, and IR Radiation

2packages dependsuggested by 6

7.3Kdownloads / year

19.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Constructors of waveband objects for commonly used biological spectral weighting functions (BSWFs) and for different wavebands describing named ranges of wavelengths in the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS) and infrared (IR) regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Part of the 'r4photobiology' suite, Aphalo P. J. (2015) doi:10.19232/uv4pb.2015.1.14.

Changes in 0.5.4

Bug fix in PQYR_q_fun and thus in PAR() or PQYR(), affecting only the

"Yield Photon Density" computation, new in 0.5.3.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("photobiologyWavebands", 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/photobiologywavebands")

Development version from aphalo/photobiologywavebands. 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-photobiologywavebands

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-photobiologyWavebands

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-photobiologyWavebands

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.4

READMEYes · 906 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.5.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 61 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%46 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 49%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,153 · ~20/day · ~607/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45130 days

1.1K90 days

7.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u8 autocran2.2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

aphalo/photobiologywavebands ↗Account: aphalo

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

119Commits

1Commit identities

119 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

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

2022-01-27 · 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/photobiologywavebands 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

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing photobiologyWavebands adds 31 packages (20 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, photobiology 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0photobiology

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggspectra photobiologyPlants

Suggests, most downloaded first

photobiologyInOut photobiologySensors photobiologySun photobiologyFilters photobiologyLamps photobiologyLEDs

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Pedro J. Aphalo

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2016)

Titta K. Kotilainen

Contributor · added in 0.4.1

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.4Latest
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2025-09-14 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
PQYR, PQYR_q_fun
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.2
record
2023-10-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.1
record
2023-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
PhR, UV_health_hazard, erythema
0.5.0
record
2022-08-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.5
record
2022-01-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.4
record
2020-04-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
NDVI
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.3
record
2019-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
UVAlw, UVAsw
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.2
record
2017-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 21 exports
ETM_bands, FIR, IR, IRA, IRB, IRC, IR_bands, Landsat_bands, MIR, MSS_bands, NIR, OLI_bands, RBV_bands, SWIR, SWIR1, SWIR2, TIR1, TIR2, TIRS_bands, UVA1, UVA2
0.4.1
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2016-08-01 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.4.0
record
2016-02-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-03
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 41 KB / 2 files
Download size: 137 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("photobiologyWavebands")

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

It points to 10.19232/uv4pb.2015.1.14.

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 photobiologyWavebands version 0.5.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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