hyperSpec

0.100.3

Work with Hyperspectral Data, i.e. Spectra + Meta Information (Spatial, Time, Concentration, ...)

4packages depend

21.2Kdownloads / year

31.4%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Claudia BeleitesFirst published 2009-10-2819 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Comfortable ways to work with hyperspectral data sets. I.e. spatially or time-resolved spectra, or spectra with any other kind of information associated with each of the spectra. The spectra can be data as obtained in XRF, UV/VIS, Fluorescence, AES, NIR, IR, Raman, NMR, MS, etc. More generally, any data that is recorded over a discretized variable, e.g. absorbance = f(wavelength), stored as a vector of absorbance values for discrete wavelengths is suitable.

Install

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

install.packages("hyperSpec", 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("r-hyperspec/hyperSpec")

Development version from r-hyperspec/hyperSpec. 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-hyperspec

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

# 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-hyperSpec

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

31.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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
OK2026-03-30
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 99%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 81%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

21.2K

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Rank #3,345 · ~58/day · ~1.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-hyperspec/hyperspec

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661Commits

9Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 661 commits · Last activity 2026-06-29 · +4.8% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.6.0latticegridggplot2 xml2

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testthatmethodsutilslatticeExtra lazyeval dplyr rlang

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Claudia Beleites

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Claudia Beleites

Author, Maintainer, Data contributor

Vilmantas Gegzna

Author · added in 0.99-20180627

Valter Sergo

Author · added in 0.99-20171005

Contributors (9)

Alois Bonifacio

Contributor, Data contributor · added in 0.99-20171005

Marcel Dahms