R Observatory: Metrics for spinifex version 0.3.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spinifex

0.3.10

Manual Tours, Manual Control of Dynamic Projections of Numeric Multivariate Data

1packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas SpyrisonFirst published 2019-04-0916 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Data visualization tours animates linear projection of multivariate data as its basis (ie. orientation) changes. The 'spinifex' packages generates paths for manual tours by manipulating the contribution of a single variable at a time Cook & Buja (1997) doi:10.1080/10618600.1997.10474754. Other types of tours, such as grand (random walk) and guided (optimizing some objective function) are available in the 'tourr' package Wickham et al. doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i02. 'spinifex' builds on 'tourr' and can render tours with 'gganimate' and 'plotly' graphics, and allows for exporting as an .html widget and as an .gif, respectively. This work is fully discussed in Spyrison & Cook (2020) doi:10.32614/RJ-2020-027.

Install

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

install.packages("spinifex", 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("nspyrison/spinifex")

Development version from nspyrison/spinifex. 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-spinifex

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-spinifex

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-spinifex

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

79.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMEYes · 668 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 29%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,585 · ~17/day · ~513/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nspyrison/spinifex

3Stars

1Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

719Commits

5Contributors

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719 commits · Last activity 2025-09-17

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nspyrison/spinifex on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0tourr

Imports (6)

ggplot2 gganimate plotly shiny Rdimtools magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

MASSggrepel patchwork gifski hexbin htmlwidgets png dplyr knitr GGally testthat lifecycle covr spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

cheem

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Nicholas Spyrison

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Nicholas Spyrison

Author, Maintainer

Dianne Cook

Author, Thesis advisor

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-09
Total releases: 16 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 39 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

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Spyrison, N., & Cook, D. (2025). spinifex: Manual Tours, Manual Control of Dynamic Projections of Numeric Multivariate Data (Version 0.3.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spinifex

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spinifex version 0.3.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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