R Observatory: Metrics for sphunif version 1.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sphunif

1.4.4Package record

Uniformity Tests on the Circle, Sphere, and Hypersphere

2packages dependsuggested by 1

4.1Kdownloads / year

88.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eduardo García-PortuguésCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implementation of uniformity tests on the circle and (hyper)sphere. The main function of the package is unif_test(), which conveniently collects more than 35 tests for assessing uniformity on S^{p-1} = {x in R^p : ||x|| = 1}, p >= 2. The test statistics are implemented in the unif_stat() function, which allows computing several statistics for different samples within a single call, thus facilitating Monte Carlo experiments. Furthermore, the unif_stat_MC() function allows parallelizing them in a simple way. The asymptotic null distributions of the statistics are available through the function unif_stat_distr(). The core of 'sphunif' is coded in C++ by relying on the 'Rcpp' package. The package also provides several novel datasets and gives the replicability for the data applications/simulations in García-Portugués et al. (2021) doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69944-4_12, García-Portugués et al. (2023) doi:10.3150/21-BEJ1454, Fernández-de-Marcos and García-Portugués (2024) doi:10.1016/j.spl.2024.110218, and García-Portugués et al. (2025) doi:10.1080/01621459.2025.2566414.

Changes in 1.4.4

Add cmb dataset

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sphunif", 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("egarpor/sphunif")

Development version from egarpor/sphunif. 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-sphunif

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-sphunif

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-sphunif

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: 13.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.4.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 43 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%35 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 42%

Vignettes (1)

sphunif: Uniformity Tests on the Circle, Sphere, and Hypersphere

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,701 · ~11/day · ~345/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50630 days

1.3K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on419 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

egarpor/sphunif ↗Account: egarpor

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

3Open PRs

4Releases

79Commits

1Commit identities

rcircular-statisticsdirectional-statisticsuniformityuniformity-tests

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 79 commits · Last activity 2026-06-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-02 · 92026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/egarpor/sphunif on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sphunif adds 15 packages (6 with compiled code, 7.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rotasym 2.4 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0Rcpp

Imports (6)

doFuture doRNG foreach future gsl rotasym

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (12)

CompQuadForm goftest knitr markdown mvtnorm numDeriv progress progressr rmarkdown scatterplot3d testthat viridisLite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ridgetorus polykde

Suggests, most downloaded first

QuadratiK

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Eduardo García-Portugués

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2021)

Thomas Verdebout

Author

Alberto Fernández-de-Marcos

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Paula Navarro

Contributor

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.4.4Latest
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2026-06-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.3
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2025-11-09 · diff ↗
1.4.2
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2025-08-18 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2025-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
H_ab, d_cir_stat_Stein, d_sph_stat_Stein, p_cir_stat_Stein, p_sph_stat_Stein, rot_ab
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.0
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2024-05-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
c_unif_cap, d_cir_stat_Poisson, d_cir_stat_Softmax, d_proj_unif_cap, d_sph_stat_Poisson, d_sph_stat_Softmax, d_sph_stat_Stereo, d_unif_cap, p_cir_stat_Poisson, p_cir_stat_Softmax, p_proj_unif_cap, p_sph_stat_Poisson, p_sph_stat_Softmax, p_sph_stat_Stereo, q_proj_unif_cap, r_proj_unif_cap, r_unif_cap
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
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2023-12-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
cir_stat_Poisson, cir_stat_Sobolev, cir_stat_Softmax, d_cir_stat_Sobolev, d_sph_stat_Sobolev, p_cir_stat_Sobolev, p_sph_stat_Sobolev, sph_stat_Poisson, sph_stat_Sobolev, sph_stat_Softmax, sph_stat_Stereo
1.1.0
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2023-08-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
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2021-09-02
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-02
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 482 KB / 6 files
Download size: 793 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sphunif")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sphunif version 1.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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