R Observatory: Metrics for threeBrain version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

threeBrain

1.2.0

Your Advanced 3D Brain Visualization

2packages depend

8.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhengjia WangFirst published 2019-06-2818 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A fast, interactive cross-platform, and easy to share 'WebGL'-based 3D brain viewer that visualizes 'FreeSurfer' and/or 'AFNI/SUMA' surfaces. The viewer widget can be either standalone or embedded into 'R-shiny' applications. The standalone version only require a web browser with 'WebGL2' support (for example, 'Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Safari'), and can be inserted into any websites. The 'R-shiny' support allows the 3D viewer to be dynamically generated from reactive user inputs. Please check the publication by Wang, Magnotti, Zhang, and Beauchamp (2023, doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0328-23.2023) for electrode localization. This viewer has been fully adopted by 'RAVE' https://openwetware.org/wiki/RAVE, an interactive toolbox to analyze 'iEEG' data by Magnotti, Wang, and Beauchamp (2020, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117341). Please check 'citation("threeBrain")' for details.

Install

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

install.packages("threeBrain", 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("dipterix/threeBrain")

Development version from dipterix/threeBrain. 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-threebrain

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-threeBrain

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-threeBrain

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 87%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 47%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,833 · ~24/day · ~722/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dipterix/threebrain

51Stars

10Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

856Commits

3Contributors

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856 commits · Last activity 2026-08-13 · +4.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-10 · 472026-08-15 · 51

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dipterix/threebrain on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (17)

utilsgrDevicesgraphicsdipsaus xml2 servr png knitr shiny digest freesurferformats (>= 0.1.7)jsonlite stringr htmlwidgets (>= 1.3)R6 gifti oro.nifti

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown DT ravetools htmltools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

ravecore ravepipeline

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Zhengjia Wang

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Zhengjia Wang

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (3)

Michael Beauchamp

Thesis advisor, Contributor, Data contributor · added in 0.1.3

John Magnotti

Contributor, res · added in 0.1.3

Xiang Zhang

Contributor, res · added in 0.2.3

Copyright holders (1)

Zhengjia Wang

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Other (3)

Meng Li

Thesis advisor · added in 0.2.0

Brian Metzger

res · added in 0.1.3

Elizabeth Nesbitt

res · added in 0.1.3

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-28
Total releases: 18 / 7 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Medical Image Analysis

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("threeBrain")

Format

Wang, Z., Beauchamp, M., Li, M., Magnotti, J., Metzger, B., Nesbitt, E., & Zhang, X. (2024). threeBrain: Your Advanced 3D Brain Visualization (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.threeBrain

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for threeBrain version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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