circular

0.5-2

Circular Statistics

48packages depend

116.6Kdownloads / year

6.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eduardo García-PortuguésFirst published 2004-05-2622 releasesCRAN page ↗

Circular Statistics, from "Topics in circular Statistics" (2001) S. Rao Jammalamadaka and A. SenGupta, World Scientific.

Install

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

install.packages("circular", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-circular

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-circular

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-circular

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

6.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 85%
References docs: 51%

Downloads

116.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,391 · ~320/day · ~9.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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6.1K30 days

23.3K90 days

116.6K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0stats

Imports (2)

bootmvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 9,093 (56%)Rd 6,098 (37%)C 669 (4%)Other 292 (2%)Fortran 220 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S358

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 63 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

6.5%

Tests / Examples

6.7% / 68% ex

Functions

269 128 exported

Complexity

6 avg / 63 max

Call network

269 nodes / 419 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

269 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
A1FirstDerivative exp	1	0%
A1SecondDerivative exp	1	0%
I.0 exp	1	0%
I.1 exp	1	0%
I.p exp	1	0%
angular.deviation exp	3	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 34

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
fisherB1	vector	–	–
fisherB11	vector	–	–
fisherB11c	vector	–	–
fisherB12	vector	–	–
fisherB12c	vector	–	–
fisherB18	data.frame	19 × 2	–
fisherB18c	data.frame	19 × 2	–
fisherB1c	circular/numeric	–	–
fisherB2	vector	–	–
fisherB20	data.frame	31 × 2	–
fisherB20c	data.frame	31 × 2	–
fisherB2c	vector	–	–
fisherB3	vector	–	in 2 packages
fisherB3c	vector	–	in 2 packages
fisherB4	vector	–	–
fisherB4c	vector	–	–
fisherB5	vector	–	–
fisherB5c	vector	–	–
fisherB7	vector	–	–
fisherB7c	vector	–	–
fisherB8	vector	–	–
fisherB8c	vector	–	–
fisherB9	vector	–	–
fisherB9c	vector	–	–
fisherB9direction	vector	–	–
fisherB9frequency	vector	–	–
ncfrog	circular/numeric	–	–
ncfrog.rad	circular/numeric	–	–
pigeons	data.frame	108 × 2	–
swallows	data.frame	114 × 2	–
turtles	data.frame	10 × 2	–
wind	vector	–	–
x.coope	vector	–	–
y.coope	vector	–	–

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Eduardo García-Portugués

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.4-95

Authors (2)

Claudio Agostinelli

Author

Ulric Lund

Author

Contributors (7)

Eduardo García-Portugués

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 0.4-95

Hiroyoshi Arai

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Alessando Gagliardi

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Dimitri Giunchi

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Jean-Olivier Irisson

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Matthew Pocernich

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Federico Rotolo

Contributor · added in 0.4-93

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Eduardo Garcia Portugues

no longer listed · 0.4-93 to 0.4-94.1

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-04-27
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2022-04-23 · diff ↗
orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
2022-04-23
DOUBLE_* constants were still in use
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 2.0.0 released · 2004-10-04
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R 1.9.0 released · 2004-04-12

Package metadata

First published: 2004-05-26
Total releases: 22 / 22 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 17 KB / 37 files
Download size: 180 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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