R Observatory: Metrics for shapes version 1.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shapes

1.2.8Package record

Statistical Shape Analysis

9packages dependsuggested by 2

27.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ian DrydenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Routines for the statistical analysis of landmark shapes, including Procrustes analysis, graphical displays, principal components analysis, permutation and bootstrap tests, thin-plate spline transformation grids and comparing covariance matrices. See Dryden, I.L. and Mardia, K.V. (2016). Statistical shape analysis, with Applications in R (2nd Edition), John Wiley and Sons.

Changes in 1.2.8

Features

pns includes extra options for deciding between great vs small spheres at each stage, namely ks.test, var.test, distr (LR test using particular distributions)

fastpns carries out pns but also has an option to first reduce dimension by PCA to n.pc, then fit pns. Useful for high-dimensional data, e.g. dimension > 30.

Added an option to pns and pnss3d to choose the mean.type. Previously was Frechet and now can be Fisher if desired.

Fixes

Fixed a bug in the plot of the PNS mean in the function pns

Included more (1000) values to search for Frechet mean at last stage, rather than just n (which may be small). Hence this is more accurate.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shapes", 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("iandryden/shapes")

Development version from iandryden/shapes. 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-shapes

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-shapes

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-shapes

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-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.8

READMEYes · 34 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 55 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 98%53 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 93%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

27.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,917 · ~76/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

4.8K90 days

27.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on344 r2u3 autocran1.4K conda_forge152 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

iandryden/shapes ↗Account: iandryden

7Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

92Commits

2Commit identities

92 commits · Last activity 2026-06-01 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.9, ahead of CRAN 1.2.8 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 362
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 50

Stars over time

2024-01-11 · 62026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/iandryden/shapes on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shapes adds 31 packages (17 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, rgl 4.0 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

minpack.lm scatterplot3d rglMASSfitdistrplus

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

5indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

optiSolve symbolicDA Anthropometry biplotbootGUI ETRep CovTools cncaGUI LOST multibiplotGUI

Suggests, most downloaded first

Morpho elastes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Ian Dryden

Author, Maintainer since 1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ian L. Dryden

no longer listed · 1.1-7 to 1.2.7

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-09-16
Total releases: 31 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 245 KB / 31 files
Download size: 360 KB

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Dryden, I. (2025). shapes: Statistical Shape Analysis (Version 1.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shapes

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shapes version 1.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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