R Observatory: Metrics for sphereplot version 1.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sphereplot

1.5.1Package record

Spherical Plotting

1packages dependsuggested by 2

8.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron RobothamCRAN page ↗

Various functions for creating spherical coordinate system plots via extensions to rgl.

Install

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

install.packages("sphereplot", 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-sphereplot

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-sphereplot

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-sphereplot

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Aaron Robotham <aaron.robotham@uwa.edu.au>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Aaron",
                    family = "Robotham",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "aaron.robotham@uwa.edu.au")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-08
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,415 · ~24/day · ~740/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38230 days

1.2K90 days

8.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on84 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sphereplot adds 28 packages (16 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, rgl 4.0 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

rgl

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

spherepc

Suggests, most downloaded first

inlabru spheresmooth

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Aaron Robotham

Maintainer since 1.1 (2012)

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-08-15
Total releases: 6 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 6.4 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sphereplot")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sphereplot version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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