R Observatory: Metrics for rainbow version 3.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rainbow

3.8Package record

Bagplots, Boxplots and Rainbow Plots for Functional Data

6packages depend

159.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Han Lin ShangCRAN page ↗

Visualizing functional data and identifying functional outliers.

Install

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

install.packages("rainbow", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rainbow

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-rainbow

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-rainbow

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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 85%

Also includes 8 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

159.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,082 · ~437/day · ~13.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

13K30 days

34.4K90 days

159.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u8 autocran4.6K conda_forge27.1K bioconda224 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rainbow adds 30 packages (19 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, mclust 2.7 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0MASSpcaPP

Imports (5)

hdrcdeclustercolorspace ksmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

forecast

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

147indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

fds ftsa demography fChange popstudy wwntests

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Han Lin Shang

Rob Hyndman

Author · added in 3.6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Rob J Hyndman

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.5

Releases (49)

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-05-29
Total releases: 49 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 202 KB / 11 files
Download size: 238 KB

Appears in task views

Anomaly Detection Functional Data Analysis

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citation("rainbow")

Format

Shang, H. L., & Hyndman, R. (2024). rainbow: Bagplots, Boxplots and Rainbow Plots for Functional Data (Version 3.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rainbow

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rainbow version 3.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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