R Observatory: Metrics for handwriterRF version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

handwriterRF

1.1.1Package record

Handwriting Analysis with Random Forests

1packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

87.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephanie ReindersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence

Perform forensic handwriting analysis of two scanned handwritten documents. This package implements the statistical method described by Madeline Johnson and Danica Ommen (2021) doi:10.1002/sam.11566. Similarity measures and a random forest produce a score-based likelihood ratio that quantifies the strength of the evidence in favor of the documents being written by the same writer or different writers.

Changes in 1.1.1

Fixes

Fixed the vignette, training-slr-model.Rmd, to save files to the temporary directory instead of the Desktop.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("handwriterRF", 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("CSAFE-ISU/handwriterRF")

Development version from CSAFE-ISU/handwriterRF. 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-handwriterrf

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-handwriterRF

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-handwriterRF

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: 23.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 373 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 19 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 62%8 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,991 · ~9/day · ~266/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

76830 days

1.4K90 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on81 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

csafe-isu/handwriterrf ↗Organization: CSAFE-ISU

2Stars

4Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

228Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 228 commits · Last activity 2025-09-30 · Default branch at 1.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 32026-07-21 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/csafe-isu/handwriterrf 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

Docs source (2)

README.qmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-11-06

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing handwriterRF adds 87 packages (47 with compiled code, 84 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

dplyr handwriter lifecycle magrittr purrr ranger reshape2 stringr tidyr tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

handwriterApp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Stephanie Reinders

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2024)

Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence

Author, Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-01-29
1.1.1Latest
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2025-01-29 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-01-28
policy violation Creates and leaves behind '~/Desktop'
1.1.0
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2025-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_csafe_train_set

added 5 exports
compare_documents, compare_writer_profiles, get_rates_of_misleading_slrs, get_ref_scores, plot_scores
1.0.2
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2024-11-03
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-03
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 845 KB / 7 files
Download size: 2.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("handwriterRF")

Format

Reinders, S., & Iowa State University of Science and Technology on behalf of its Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence. (2025). handwriterRF: Handwriting Analysis with Random Forests (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.handwriterRF

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 handwriterRF version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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