R Observatory: Metrics for qsplines version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

qsplines

1.0.1Package record

Quaternions Splines

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stéphane LaurentCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides routines to create some quaternions splines: Barry-Goldman algorithm, De Casteljau algorithm, and Kochanek-Bartels algorithm. The implementations are based on the Python library 'splines'. Quaternions splines allow to construct spherical curves. References: Barry and Goldman doi:10.1145/54852.378511, Kochanek and Bartels doi:10.1145/800031.808575.

Changes in 1.0.1

Some details. No change for the user.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("qsplines", 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("stla/qsplines")

Development version from stla/qsplines. 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-qsplines

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-qsplines

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-qsplines

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: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 21 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,883 · ~6/day · ~186/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23630 days

59990 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on341 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stla/qsplines ↗Account: stla

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

32Commits

1Commit identities

quaternionsrrcppsplines

32 commits · Last activity 2023-02-27

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-05-12 · 42026-07-07 · 4

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/stla/qsplines on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing qsplines adds 44 packages (26 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

onion

Imports (3)

shinyutilsRcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (1)

rgl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Stéphane Laurent

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Matthias Geier

Author

author of the Python library 'splines'

Releases (3)

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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
1.0.1Latest
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2023-02-27 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2022-07-18 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2022-06-28
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-28
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 361 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("qsplines")

Format

Laurent, S., & Geier, M. (2023). qsplines: Quaternions Splines (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.qsplines

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 qsplines version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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