R Observatory: Metrics for walkboutr version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

walkboutr

0.6.0Package record

Generate Walk Bouts from GPS and Accelerometry Data

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

69.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lauren Blair WilnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Process GPS and accelerometry data to generate walk bouts. A walk bout is a period of activity with accelerometer movement matching the patterns of walking with corresponding GPS measurements that confirm travel. The inputs of the 'walkboutr' package are individual-level accelerometry and GPS data. The outputs of the model are walk bouts with corresponding times, duration, and summary statistics on the sample population, which collapse all personally identifying information. These bouts can be used to measure walking both as an outcome of a change to the built environment or as a predictor of health outcomes such as a cardioprotective behavior. Kang B, Moudon AV, Hurvitz PM, Saelens BE (2017) doi:10.1016/j.trd.2017.09.026.

Install

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

install.packages("walkboutr", 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("rwalkbout/walkboutr")

Development version from rwalkbout/walkboutr. 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-walkboutr

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-walkboutr

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-walkboutr

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: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 977 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 39 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 41%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,054 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32730 days

97090 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on71 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rwalkbout/walkboutr ↗Organization: rwalkbout

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

58Commits

1Commit identities

58 commits · Last activity 2025-07-01 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.5.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-18 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rwalkbout/walkboutr on 2026-10-25.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-07-01

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing walkboutr adds 51 packages (35 with compiled code, 60 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (13)

data.table dplyr geosphere ggforce ggplot2 lubridate lwgeom magrittr measurements sf spstatstidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat tinytestutils

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Lauren Blair Wilner

Stephen J Mooney

Author

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-08
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 453 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("walkboutr")

Format

Wilner, L. B., & Mooney, S. J. (2024). walkboutr: Generate Walk Bouts from GPS and Accelerometry Data (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.walkboutr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for walkboutr version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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