R Observatory: Metrics for skiftiTools version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

skiftiTools

0.1.0

Tools and Operations for Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Manipulating SKIFTI Files

0packages depend

1.5Kdownloads / year

47.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ilkka SuuronenFirst published 2025-10-161 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

SKIFTI files contain brain imaging data in coordinates across Tract Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) skeleton, which represent the brain white matter intensity values. 'skiftiTools' provides a unified environment for reading, writing, visualizing and manipulating SKIFTI-format data. It supports the "subsetting", "concatenating", and using data as data.frame for R statistical functions. The SKIFTI data is structured for convenient access to the data and metadata, and includes support for visualizations. For more information see Merisaari et al. (2024) doi:10.57736/87d2-0608.

Install

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

install.packages("skiftiTools", 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("haanme/skiftiTools")

Development version from haanme/skiftiTools. 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-skiftitools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-skiftiTools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

47.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,341 · ~4/day · ~129/mo

Releases R versions

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11330 days

42890 days

1.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ haanme/skiftitools

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

176Commits

2Contributors

176 commits · Last activity 2025-10-10 · +100% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/haanme/skiftitools on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (11)

RNifti stringr R.utils rmarchingcubes Rvcg png rgl oce abindmethodss2dv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ilkka Suuronen

Maintainer

Authors (1)

Harri Merisaari

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-16
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("skiftiTools")

Format

Suuronen, I., & Merisaari, H. (2025). skiftiTools: Tools and Operations for Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Manipulating SKIFTI Files (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.skiftiTools

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for skiftiTools version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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