RaMS

1.4.3

R Access to Mass-Spec Data

4packages depend

7.4Kdownloads / year

87.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William KumlerFirst published 2021-03-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

R-based access to mass-spectrometry (MS) data. While many packages exist to process MS data, many of these make it difficult to access the underlying mass-to-charge ratio (m/z), intensity, and retention time of the files themselves. This package is designed to format MS data in a tidy fashion and allows the user perform the plotting and analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("RaMS", 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("wkumler/RaMS")

Development version from wkumler/RaMS. 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-rams

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-RaMS

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-RaMS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

87.6%

Coverage · measured lines

93%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,107 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 62%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,024 · ~20/day · ~614/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wkumler/rams

25Stars

6Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

526Commits

3Contributors

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526 commits · Last activity 2025-09-17 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wkumler/rams on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

xml2 base64enc data.tableutilsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

testthat knitr rmarkdown tidyverse ggplot2 dplyr plotly openxlsx DBI RSQLite reticulate BiocParallel Spectra arrow microbenchmark rvest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

PKbioanalysis RawHummus chromConverter mums2

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

William Kumler

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

William Kumler

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Ethan Bass

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Ricardo Cunha

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

William Kumler

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.3Latest
2024-10-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.0
2024-03-02 · diff ↗
1.3.4
2023-12-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.1
2022-12-14 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2022-11-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2021-03-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-22
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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