R Observatory: Metrics for plater version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plater

1.0.5Package record

Read, Tidy, and Display Data from Microtiter Plates

1packages depend

8.1Kdownloads / year

89.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sean HughesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for interacting with data from experiments done in microtiter plates. Easily read in plate-shaped data and convert it to tidy format, combine plate-shaped data with tidy data, and view tidy data in plate shape.

Changes in 1.0.5

Add package \alias to plater.R per CRAN request. Thanks to Maëlle Salmon @maelle

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plater", 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("ropensci/plater")

Development version from ropensci/plater. 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-plater

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-plater

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-plater

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with `plater` HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,543 · ~22/day · ~678/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47330 days

1.3K90 days

8.1K1 year

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Also on90 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/plater ↗Organization: ropensci

26Stars

4Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

310Commits

8Commit identities

rrstatsr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 310 commits · Last activity 2024-10-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 77
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 242026-08-10 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/plater 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Research and citation (1)

JOSS paper

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plater adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (3)

utilsdplyr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FAST.R

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Sean Hughes

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Releases (6)

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-06
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 143 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("plater")

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

It points to 10.21105/joss.00106.

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 plater version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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