R Observatory: Metrics for spinifex version 0.3.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spinifex

0.3.10Package record

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

1packages depend

4.7Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas SpyrisonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.3.10

Added a function ide, as a utility for estimating intrinsic data dimensionality
ggplot2 v4.0.0 pushed breaking changes as they transition to S7 objects; changed tests from expect_equal(class(x), c("gg", "ggplot")) to expect_true(inherits(x, c("ggplot", "ggplot2::ggplot"))) according to https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/6498
Trivial adjustment to animate_plotly backing out of experimental dev to support plotly subplots, especially for use by cheem::global_view
Trivial adjustment plot_pca_scree test
Tests now use spinifex::save_history instead of verbose tourr::save_history

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-14
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.10

READMEYes · 668 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.10Citation fileNo

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 63 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%54 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 29%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,981 · ~13/day · ~390/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41730 days

1.2K90 days

4.7K1 year

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Also on92 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nspyrison/spinifex ↗Account: nspyrison

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

719Commits

5Commit identities

toursdimensionreductionvisualization

719 commits · Last activity 2025-09-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 53
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2022-04-07 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nspyrison/spinifex on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-17

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spinifex adds 142 packages (90 with compiled code, 134 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

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

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cheem

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Nicholas Spyrison

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Dianne Cook

Author, Thesis advisor

Releases (16)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.10Latest
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2025-09-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ide
0.3.9
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2025-08-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.8
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2025-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
plot_pca, plot_pca_scree, proto_text_repel
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.7.0
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2024-01-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.6
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2022-03-31 · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2022-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2022-02-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_any_layer_class
0.3.3
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2022-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
.set_last_ggtour, last_ggtour
0.3.2
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2022-01-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
as_history_array

added 9 exports
append_fixed_y, draw_basis, facet_wrap_tour, proto_density2d, proto_frame_cor2, proto_hline0, proto_vline0, scale_colour_discrete, scale_fill_discrete
0.3.1
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2021-09-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 22 exports
.init4proto, .set_last_ggtour, animate_gganimate, animate_plotly, filmstrip, ggtour, last_ggtour, map_absolute, map_relative, proto_basis, proto_basis1d, proto_default, proto_default1d, proto_density, proto_hex, proto_highlight, proto_highlight1d, proto_origin, proto_origin1d, proto_point, proto_text, save_history
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.2.8
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2021-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
manip_var_guided, manip_var_pca, scale_10

added 7 exports
as_history_array, basis_half_circle, basis_odp, basis_olda, basis_onpp, manip_var_of, scale_01
0.2.7
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2020-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
oblique_basis, view_basis
0.2.6
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2020-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
col_of, oblique_basis, oblique_frame, pch_of, set_axes_position, view_basis

added 10 exports
basis_guided, basis_pca, manip_var_guided, manip_var_pca, render_plotly, scale_10, scale_axes, scale_sd, theme_spinifex, view_frame
0.2.5
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2020-07-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
render_plotly
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-06-18
0.2.0
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
is_orthonormal, oblique_basis, oblique_frame, pan_zoom, render_, run_app
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-06-15
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2019-04-09
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-09
Total releases: 16 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 in 0.3.5
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 39 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.4 MB

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Cite

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citation("spinifex")

Format

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 v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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