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Working with Rotation Data

v1.6.6 · Sep 28, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Tools for working with rotational data, including simulation from the most commonly used distributions on SO(3), methods for different Bayes, mean and median type estimators for the central orientation of a sample, confidence/credible regions for the central orientation based on those estimators and a novel visualization technique for rotation data. Most recently, functions to identify potentially discordant (outlying) values have been added. References: Bingham, Melissa A. and Nordman, Dan J. and Vardeman, Steve B. (2009), Bingham, Melissa A and Vardeman, Stephen B and Nordman, Daniel J (2009), Bingham, Melissa A and Nordman, Daniel J and Vardeman, Stephen B (2010), Leon, C.A. and Masse, J.C. and Rivest, L.P. (2006), Hartley, R and Aftab, K and Trumpf, J. (2011), Stanfill, Bryan and Genschel, Ulrike and Hofmann, Heike (2013), Maonton, Jonathan (2004), Mardia, KV and Jupp, PE (2000, ISBN:9780471953333), Rancourt, D. and Rivest, L.P. and Asselin, J. (2000), Chang, Ted and Rivest, Louis-Paul (2001), Fisher, Nicholas I. (1996, ISBN:0521568900).

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installed package size

installed size is 11.5Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    R      2.5Mb
    data   2.7Mb
    libs   5.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 11.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    R      2.1Mb
    data   2.7Mb
    libs   5.5Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  6.4Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    R      1.6Mb
    data   2.7Mb
    libs   1.4Mb

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 gridExtra Rcpp ETRep rotations

Version History

new 1.6.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.6.6 ← 1.6.5 diff Sep 28, 2025
updated 1.6.5 ← 1.6.4 diff Dec 7, 2023
updated 1.6.4 ← 1.6.3 diff Jun 23, 2022
updated 1.6.3 ← 1.6.2 diff Nov 24, 2021
updated 1.6.2 ← 1.6.1 diff Mar 11, 2021
updated 1.6.1 ← 1.6 diff Apr 2, 2020
updated 1.6 ← 1.5 diff Mar 27, 2020
updated 1.5 ← 1.4 diff Jan 5, 2016
updated 1.4 ← 1.3 diff Oct 13, 2015
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Dec 15, 2014
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Apr 6, 2014
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Feb 22, 2014
updated 1.0 ← 0.2 diff Jan 27, 2014
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff Dec 9, 2013
new 0.1 Sep 8, 2013