R Observatory: Metrics for swephR version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

swephR

0.3.2

High Precision Swiss Ephemeris

2packages depend

9.6Kdownloads / year

44.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ralf StubnerFirst published 2019-01-308 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Swiss Ephemeris (version 2.10.03) is a high precision ephemeris based upon the DE431 ephemerides from NASA's JPL. It covers the time range 13201 BCE to 17191 CE. This package uses the semi-analytic theory by Steve Moshier. For faster and more accurate calculations, the compressed Swiss Ephemeris data is available in the 'swephRdata' package. To access this data package, run 'install.packages("swephRdata", repos = "https://rstub.r-universe.dev", type = "source")'. The size of the 'swephRdata' package is approximately 115 MB. The user can also use the original JPL DE431 data.

Install

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

install.packages("swephR", 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("rstub/swephR")

Development version from rstub/swephR. 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-swephr

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-swephR

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-swephR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.56

44.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-07-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-29
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 245 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,132 · ~26/day · ~804/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43230 days

2K90 days

9.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rstub/swephr

11Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

367Commits

3Contributors

ephemerisr

367 commits · Last activity 2025-03-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-07-08 · 92026-07-07 · 11

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstub/swephr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

testthat swephRdata knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

VedicDateTime skymodelr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ralf Stubner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Ralf Stubner

Author, Maintainer

Authors and copyright holder of the Swiss Ephemeris

Author, Copyright holder

Victor Reijs

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Authors and copyright holder of the Swiss Ephemeris

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

8 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.2Latest
2025-03-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.1
2023-05-08 · 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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
2019-08-28 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2019-07-08 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2019-07-05 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.5
2019-02-18 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-02-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-02-02
non-cross-platform code

Show 3 earlier events

0.1.4
2019-02-01 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2019-01-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-30
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: AGPL
Additional repositories: rstub.r-universe.dev
Bundled data: 2.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 484 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("swephR")

Format

Stubner, R., Authors and copyright holder of the Swiss Ephemeris, & Reijs, V. (2025). swephR: High Precision Swiss Ephemeris (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.swephR

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 swephR version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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