R Observatory: Metrics for radsafer version 2.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

radsafer

2.4.1Package record

Radiation Safety

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.2Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark HogueCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for radiation safety, also known as "radiation protection" and "radiological control". The science of radiation protection is called "health physics" and its engineering functions are called "radiological engineering". Functions in this package cover many of the computations needed by radiation safety professionals. Examples include: obtaining updated calibration and source check values for radiation monitors to account for radioactive decay in a reference source, simulating instrument readings to better understand measurement uncertainty, correcting instrument readings for geometry and ambient atmospheric conditions. Many of these functions are described in Johnson and Kirby (2011, ISBN-13: 978-1609134198). Utilities are also included for developing inputs and processing outputs with radiation transport codes, such as MCNP, a general-purpose Monte Carlo N-Particle code that can be used for neutron, photon, electron, or coupled neutron/photon/electron transport (Werner et. al. (2018) doi:10.2172/1419730).

Changes in 2.4.1

***2026-07-13***

Added minimum energy argument for RN_plot_spectrum to use with photon plots. This is to allow removal of high levels of X-rays that sometimes is present in such plots.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("radsafer", 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("markhogue/radsafer")

Development version from markhogue/radsafer. 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-radsafer

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-radsafer

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-radsafer

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: 1.9 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 2.4.1

READMEYes · 252 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.4.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%28 run in a plain check · 2 never run · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to radsafer HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,752 · ~9/day · ~264/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33830 days

87190 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u8 autocran103 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

markhogue/radsafer ↗Account: markhogue

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

163Commits

1Commit identities

163 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2023-12-01 · 22026-07-07 · 3

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/markhogue/radsafer on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing radsafer adds 41 packages (19 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, RadData 5.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (12)

ggplot2 readrstatsgraphicsRadData stringr magrittr dplyr rlang scatterplot3d ggthemes lifecycle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat beepr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

RadData

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Mark Hogue

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Releases (15)

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2.4.1Latest
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2026-07-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.4.0
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2025-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
mcnp_si_sp_RD, mcnp_si_sp_hist, mcnp_si_sp_hist_scan

added 1 export
RN_plot_df
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.3.0
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2023-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mcnp_mesh_bins
2.2.8
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2023-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
hvl, mcnp_sdef_erg_hist, mcnp_sdef_erg_line
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.6
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2022-02-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.5
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2021-04-12 · diff ↗
2.2.4
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2021-01-04 · diff ↗
2.2.3
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2020-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
mcnp_scan2spec
2.2.2
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2020-07-24 · diff ↗
2.2.1
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2020-06-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
bin_screen_phot, search_alpha_by_E, search_beta_by_E, search_phot_by_E

added 1 export
RN_bin_screen_phot

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.2.0
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2020-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
RN_plt, dk_activity, dk_cf, dk_reverse, scan2spec.df

added 8 exports
RN_plot_search_results, RN_plot_spectrum, RN_save_spectrum, RN_search_alpha_by_E, RN_search_beta_by_E, RN_search_phot_by_E, mcnp_scan2plot, mcnp_scan_save
2.1.0
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2019-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
mcnp_si_hist, mcnp_sp_hist

added 4 exports
RN_find_parent, dk_correct, mcnp_si_sp_hist, mcnp_si_sp_hist_scan
2.0.1
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2019-05-27 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2019-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
dk_pct_to_num_t_h, plot_spec_from_hist, rot_fun, si_hist, sp_hist, tan_d2, tau_est

added 18 exports
%>%, RN_Spec_Act, RN_index_screen, RN_info, RN_plt, bin_screen_phot, mcnp_cone_angle, mcnp_est_nps, mcnp_matrix_rotations, mcnp_plot_out_spec, mcnp_scan2spec, mcnp_si_hist, mcnp_si_sp_RD, mcnp_sp_hist, search_alpha_by_E, search_beta_by_E, search_phot_by_E, tau_estimate
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
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2019-04-04
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-04
Total releases: 15 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 313 KB

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Chemometrics and Computational Physics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("radsafer")

Format

Hogue, M. (2026). radsafer: Radiation Safety (Version 2.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.radsafer

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for radsafer version 2.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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