R Observatory: Metrics for trackeR version 1.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

trackeR

1.6.1Package record

Infrastructure for Running, Cycling and Swimming Data from GPS-Enabled Tracking Devices

2packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ioannis KosmidisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides infrastructure for handling running, cycling and swimming data from GPS-enabled tracking devices within R. The package provides methods to extract, clean and organise workout and competition data into session-based and unit-aware data objects of class 'trackeRdata' (S3 class). The information can then be visualised, summarised, and analysed through flexible and extensible methods. Frick and Kosmidis (2017) <doi: 10.18637/jss.v082.i07>, which is updated and maintained as one of the vignettes, provides detailed descriptions of the package and its methods, and real-data demonstrations of the package functionality.

Changes in 1.6.1

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug that would result in plot_route() returning empty output.
Removed **gridExtra** and **gtable** from imports in favour of **patchwork**.

Enhancements

Documentation fixes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("trackeR", 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("trackerproject/trackeR")

Development version from trackerproject/trackeR. 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-tracker

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-trackeR

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-trackeR

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: 6.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-04-29
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-04-28
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 95includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 32%9 run in a plain check · 19 never run
Exported functions with examples: 34%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 23%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,448 · ~14/day · ~419/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41430 days

1.1K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on150 r2u5 autocran129 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

trackerproject/tracker ↗Organization: trackerproject

91Stars

8Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

677Commits

8Commit identities

677 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29 · -1.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-27 · 902026-10-12 · 91

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/trackerproject/tracker on 2026-10-22.

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

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing trackeR adds 106 packages (67 with compiled code, 106 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.1.0zoo

Imports (13)

ggplot2 ggridges xml2 RSQLite jsonlite raster scam foreach fda sp leaflet ggmap patchwork

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

spelling testthat knitr rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

trackeRapp ConconiAnaerobicThresholdTest

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Ioannis Kosmidis

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2018)

Hannah Frick

Author

Robin Hornak

Author · added in 1.1

Previously maintained by Hannah Frick (0.0.1 to 1.0.0).

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.1Latest
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2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.6.0
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2024-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
m_per_min2m_per_min, m_per_min2m_per_s, m_per_s2m_per_min
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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
1.5.2
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2019-05-15 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.5.1
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2019-04-10 · diff ↗
1.5.0
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2019-04-05 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2019-03-24 · diff ↗
1.4
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2019-03-14 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2019-03-05 · diff ↗

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1.2.0
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2018-10-12 · diff ↗
1.1
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2018-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 52 exports
C2C, C2F, F2C, F2F, Wexp, bpm2bpm, change_units, collect_units, compute_breaks, compute_limits, concentration_profile, decreasingSmoother, decreasing_smoother, degree2degree, distribution_profile, find_unit_reference_sport, fortify_conProfile, fortify_distrProfile, fortify_trackeRWprime, fortify_trackeRdata, fortify_trackeRdataSummary, generateBaseUnits, generateDefaultThresholds, generate_thresholds, generate_units, get_operations, get_profile, get_resting_periods, get_sport, get_units and 22 more
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-11-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-01-12 · diff ↗
0.0.4
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2016-10-20 · diff ↗
0.0.3
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2016-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
GC2trackeRdata, funPCA, leafletRoute, nsessions, profile2fd, readJSON, scaled, timeline
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.0.1
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2016-02-12
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-12
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 2 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

Appears in task views

Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data Sports Analytics Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("trackeR")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v082.i07.

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 trackeR version 1.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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