R Observatory: Metrics for shorts version 3.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shorts

3.2.0Package record

Short Sprints

0packages depend

7.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mladen JovanovićCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create short sprint acceleration-velocity (AVP) and force-velocity (FVP) profiles and predict kinematic and kinetic variables using the timing-gate split times, laser or radar gun data, tether devices data, as well as the data provided by the GPS and LPS monitoring systems. The modeling method utilized in this package is based on the works of Furusawa K, Hill AV, Parkinson JL (1927) <doi: 10.1098/rspb.1927.0035>, Greene PR. (1986) <doi: 10.1016/0025-5564(86)90063-5>, Chelly SM, Denis C. (2001) <doi: 10.1097/00005768-200102000-00024>, Clark KP, Rieger RH, Bruno RF, Stearne DJ. (2017) <doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000002081>, Samozino P. (2018) <doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05633-3_11>, Samozino P. and Peyrot N., et al (2022) <doi: 10.1111/sms.14097>, Clavel, P., et al (2023) <doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111602>, Jovanovic M. (2023) <doi: 10.1080/10255842.2023.2170713>, and Jovanovic M., et al (2024) <doi: 10.3390/s24092894>.

Changes in 3.2.0

Fixed error in predict_work_till_distance() function
Added model_timing_gates_FD_fixed() and model_time_distance_FD_fixed() which allow user to set the fixed FD parameter. This was before done using additional parameter in model_timing_gates_FD() and model_time_distance_FD() functions, but now these functions only provide estimated FD. This is done to allow confidence intervals estimation, which was impossible to do since fixed FD was also *estimated*, but it was constrained by the optimization function to user-provided value.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shorts", 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("mladenjovanovic/shorts")

Development version from mladenjovanovic/shorts. 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-shorts

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-shorts

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-shorts

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.2.0

READMEYes · 2,176 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.2.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27
Examples that run: 95%19 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 66%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 30%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,220 · ~20/day · ~619/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35130 days

1.1K90 days

7.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mladenjovanovic/shorts ↗Account: mladenjovanovic

19Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

396Commits

1Commit identities

396 commits · Last activity 2024-10-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.3.0, ahead of CRAN 3.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-15 · 152026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mladenjovanovic/shorts on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-10-27

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shorts adds 36 packages (22 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (6)

statsLambertW tidyr ggplot2 minpack.lm purrr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Mladen Jovanović

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.3

Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2020)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Mladen Jovanovic

no longer listed · 0.0.1 to 1.1.2

Vescovi

no longer listed · 1.1.1 to 2.5.0

Releases (19)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2.0Latest
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2024-05-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
model_time_distance_FD_fixed, model_timing_gates_FD_fixed
3.1.1
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2024-05-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.1.0
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2024-01-21 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2024-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
convert_FV, make_FV_profile, model_timing_gates_FD_TC

added 14 exports
convert_FVP, create_FVP, create_sprint_trace, model_in_situ, model_laser_gun, model_time_distance, model_time_distance_DC, model_time_distance_FD, model_time_distance_TC, model_time_distance_TC_DC, model_timing_gates_DC, model_timing_gates_TC_DC, predict_work_till_distance, predict_work_till_time
2.5.0
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2023-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
find_max_power_distance, find_max_power_time

added 5 exports
convert_FV, find_peak_power_distance, find_peak_power_time, model_tether_DC, predict_force_at_velocity
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.4.0
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2023-03-13 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2022-10-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
find_optimal_FV, find_optimal_FV_distance, find_optimal_MSS_MAC, find_optimal_MSS_MAC_distance

added 5 exports
find_optimal_distance, optimal_FV, optimal_MSS_MAC, probe_FV, probe_MSS_MAC
2.1.0
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2022-09-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
find_optimal_FV, find_optimal_FV_distance, find_optimal_MSS_MAC, find_optimal_MSS_MAC_distance, model_tether, predict_time_at_distance_FV
2.0.0
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2022-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
get_FV_profile, mixed_model_using_radar, mixed_model_using_radar_with_time_correction, mixed_model_using_splits, mixed_model_using_splits_with_corrections, mixed_model_using_splits_with_distance_correction, mixed_model_using_splits_with_time_correction, model_using_radar, model_using_radar_with_time_correction, model_using_splits, model_using_splits_with_corrections, model_using_splits_with_distance_correction, model_using_splits_with_time_correction

added 7 exports
create_timing_gates_splits, make_FV_profile, model_radar_gun, model_timing_gates, model_timing_gates_FD, model_timing_gates_FD_TC, model_timing_gates_TC
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.6
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2021-07-19 · diff ↗
1.1.5
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2021-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
mixed_model_using_splits_with_distance_correction, model_using_splits_with_distance_correction

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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.4
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2020-11-29 · diff ↗
1.1.3
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2020-10-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_FV_profile
1.1.2
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2020-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
find_acceleration_critical_time, find_max_power_time, find_power_critical_time, find_velocity_critical_time, get_air_resistance, mixed_model_using_radar_with_time_correction, model_using_radar_with_time_correction, predict_air_resistance_at_distance, predict_air_resistance_at_time, predict_force_at_distance, predict_force_at_time, predict_power_at_distance, predict_power_at_time
1.1.1
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2020-09-11 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
predict_kinematics
1.0.1
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2020-05-09 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2020-05-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
mixed_model_using_instant_velocity, mixed_model_using_split_times, model_using_instant_velocity, model_using_split_times

added 14 exports
find_acceleration_critical_distance, find_max_power_distance, find_power_critical_distance, find_velocity_critical_distance, mixed_model_using_radar, mixed_model_using_splits, mixed_model_using_splits_with_corrections, mixed_model_using_splits_with_time_correction, model_using_radar, model_using_splits, model_using_splits_with_corrections, model_using_splits_with_time_correction, predict_relative_power_at_distance, predict_relative_power_at_time
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.0.1
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2020-04-23
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-23
Total releases: 19 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 827 KB / 7 files
Download size: 3.7 MB

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citation("shorts")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shorts version 3.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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