R Observatory: Metrics for ptools version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ptools

2.0.0Package record

Tools for Poisson Data

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

52.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew WheelerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions used for analyzing count data, mostly crime counts. Includes checking difference in two Poisson counts (e-test), checking the fit for a Poisson distribution, small sample tests for counts in bins, Weighted Displacement Difference test (Wheeler and Ratcliffe, 2018) doi:10.1186/s40163-018-0085-5, to evaluate crime changes over time in treated/control areas. Additionally includes functions for aggregating spatial data and spatial feature engineering.

Install

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

install.packages("ptools", 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("apwheele/ptools")

Development version from apwheele/ptools. 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-ptools

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-ptools

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-ptools

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: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-21
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-06-03
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-30
OK14 OK2026-04-19
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 236 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28
Examples that run: 58%14 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 61%

Vignettes (1)

Spatial Feature Engineering with ptools HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,579 · ~7/day · ~217/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27130 days

69690 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

apwheele/ptools ↗Account: apwheele

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

27Commits

1Commit identities

rcriminologycrime-analysiscriminal-justice

27 commits · Last activity 2023-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/apwheele/ptools on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ptools adds 34 packages (27 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (10)

partitions sp raster igraph RANN spatstat.geom spatstat.utils sfstatsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown 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 (1)

Andrew Wheeler

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.0Latest
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2023-02-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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2022-07-21 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2022-07-16
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-16
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1.6 MB / 4 files
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ptools")

Format

Wheeler, A. (2023). ptools: Tools for Poisson Data (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ptools

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 ptools version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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