R Observatory: Metrics for hexbin version 1.28.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hexbin

1.28.6Package record

Hexagonal Binning Routines

16packages dependsuggested by 40

1.5Mdownloads / year

17.0%test coverage

5/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edzer PebesmaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Binning and plotting functions for hexagonal bins.

Install

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

install.packages("hexbin", 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("edzer/hexbin")

Development version from edzer/hexbin. 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-hexbin

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-hexbin

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-hexbin

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

8NOTE5OK

Check messages

NOTEtestsr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

Running ‘hdiffplot.R’ [1s/1s]
  Comparing ‘hdiffplot.Rout’ to ‘hdiffplot.Rout.save’ ...
8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running ‘hray.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘hray.Rout’ to ‘hray.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘large.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘large.Rout’ to ‘large.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘viewp-ex.R’ [1s/1s]
  Comparing ‘viewp-ex.Rout’ to ‘viewp-ex.Rout.save’ ... OK

r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Running ‘hdiffplot.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘hdiffplot.Rout’ to ‘hdiffplot.Rout.save’ ...8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running ‘hray.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘hray.Rout’ to ‘hray.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘large.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘large.Rout’ to ‘large.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘viewp-ex.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘viewp-ex.Rout’ to ‘viewp-ex.Rout.save’ ... OK

r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Running ‘hdiffplot.R’ [1s/2s]
  Comparing ‘hdiffplot.Rout’ to ‘hdiffplot.Rout.save’ ...8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running ‘hray.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘hray.Rout’ to ‘hray.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘large.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘large.Rout’ to ‘large.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘viewp-ex.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘viewp-ex.Rout’ to ‘viewp-ex.Rout.save’ ... OK

r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Running 'hdiffplot.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'hdiffplot.Rout' to 'hdiffplot.Rout.save' ...8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running 'hray.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'hray.Rout' to 'hray.Rout.save' ... OK
  Running 'large.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'large.Rout' to 'large.Rout.save' ... OK
  Running 'viewp-ex.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'viewp-ex.Rout' to 'viewp-ex.Rout.save' ... OK

r-release-macos-arm64

Running ‘hdiffplot.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘hdiffplot.Rout’ to ‘hdiffplot.Rout.save’ ...
8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running ‘hray.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘hray.Rout’ to ‘hray.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘large.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘large.Rout’ to ‘large.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘viewp-ex.R’ [0s/0s]
  Comparing ‘viewp-ex.Rout’ to ‘viewp-ex.Rout.save’ ... OK

r-release-macos-x86_64

Running ‘hdiffplot.R’ [1s/1s]
  Comparing ‘hdiffplot.Rout’ to ‘hdiffplot.Rout.save’ ...
8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running ‘hray.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘hray.Rout’ to ‘hray.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘large.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘large.Rout’ to ‘large.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘viewp-ex.R’ [0s/1s]
  Comparing ‘viewp-ex.Rout’ to ‘viewp-ex.Rout.save’ ... OK

r-release-windows-x86_64

Running 'hdiffplot.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'hdiffplot.Rout' to 'hdiffplot.Rout.save' ...
8c8
< 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 1: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
10c10
< 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 2: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
12c12,14
< 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding") :
---
> 3: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
>   Buggy BTPE algorithm used for rbinom()
> 4: In RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry", "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage", "Rounding",  :
  Running 'hray.R' [0s]
  Comparing 'hray.Rout' to 'hray.Rout.save' ... OK
  Running 'large.R' [0s]
  Comparing 'large.Rout' to 'large.Rout.save' ... OK
  Running 'viewp-ex.R' [1s]
  Comparing 'viewp-ex.Rout' to 'viewp-ex.Rout.save' ... OK

NOTEre-building of vignette outputsr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Note: skipping ‘hexagon_binning.Rnw’ due to unavailable dependencies:
  'marray'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE5 OK, 8 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.28.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 33
Examples that run: 96%23 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 77%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 27%

Vignettes (1)

Hexagon Binning PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #274 · ~4.1K/day · ~124.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

127.4K30 days

424.7K90 days

1.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9K r2u226 autocran405.6K conda_forge402 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

edzer/hexbin ↗Account: edzer

38Stars

12Forks

12Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

6Commit identities

61 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.28.7, ahead of CRAN 1.28.6 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 71%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-22 · 372026-07-07 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/edzer/hexbin on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (2)

R >= 2.0.1methods

Imports (6)

latticegridgraphicsgrDevicesstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

marray affy Biobase limma knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

19indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 14

Suggested by 40

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rasterVis ggtern ggplot.multistats hexSticker hexDensity autocogs BoutrosLab.plotting.general Radviz BayLum wbacon hextri DecomposeR fcfdr ggsurvey som.nn gghexsize

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 8 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Edzer Pebesma

Maintainer · added in 1.28.4

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 1.27.0

Maintainer since 1.17.0 (2008)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Lewin-Koh

no longer listed · 1.28.4 to 1.28.6

Sarkar

no longer listed · 1.28.4

Releases (20)

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-12-04
Total releases: 20 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.1
Bundled data: 159 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hexbin")

Format

Pebesma, E., Carr, D., Lewin-Koh, N., Maechler, M., & Sarkar, D. (2026). hexbin: Hexagonal Binning Routines (Version 1.28.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hexbin

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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hexbin version 1.28.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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