R Observatory: Metrics for ximage version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ximage

0.1.0Package record

Draw Images of Raster Data and Related Adornments

0packages depend

548downloads / year

71.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael D. SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Draw images easily, set up a plot with an image, specify where that image should be placed. Image plot by default reflects the index of the image data itself, or can be specified in simple extent terms 'xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax'. Numeric matrices, integer arrays, byte arrays, character arrays, and native rasters are (or will be) supported. A combination of image() and rasterImage() from the 'graphics' package with their good features in one place.

Changes in 0.1.0

New function xtext() draws matrix values as labels at cell centres, in the same raster-order layout used by ximage() (thanks to a draft in issue #22). Supports vapour and gdalraster reader-output lists.
New vignette "Array orientation: raster order and the R matrix" explains the raster-order convention, the byrow = TRUE and as.vector(t(m)) round trip, multi-band aperm() recipes, and the cell-edge extent convention (#14).
Now support raw output of fastpng.
Now support {gdalraster} output of read_ds(, as_list = TRUE) or raw numeric, thanks to Chris Toney.
ximage() now handles breaks argument to go with col (for numeric input).
image() now works with list output from gdalnara (same as gdal_raster_image but with nativeRaster).
Added suport for xcontour() for the output output of gdal_raster_data() in {vapour}.

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ximage() can now plot sf::gdal_read objects.
Fixed default extent for an array/matrix, it was transposed (!).
ximage now does what imfun in whatarelief did, i.e. with the output of gdal_raster_data, gdal_raster_dsn, gdal_raster_image do the obvious plot.
Add 'mesh_plot' mode to ximage(), not fully implemented.
Increase the default colour classes, 12 -> 96.
Support 'raster' class as per as.raster.
Added xcontour and xrect functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ximage", 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("hypertidy/ximage")

Development version from hypertidy/ximage. 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-ximage

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-ximage

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-ximage

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-22

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Vignettes (1)

Array orientation: raster order and the R matrix HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

548

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,322 · ~2/day · ~46/mo

ximage Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20430 days

54890 days

5481 year

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Also on18 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hypertidy/ximage ↗Organization: hypertidy

9Stars

1Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

69Commits

3Commit identities

69 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9002, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 881
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/ximage on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-02-15
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 10 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-12
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ximage adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Michael D. Sumner

Chris Toney

Contributor

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
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2026-07-21 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Sumner, M. D., & Toney, C. (2026). ximage: Draw Images of Raster Data and Related Adornments (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ximage

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ximage version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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