magicaxis

2.5.1

Pretty Scientific Plotting with Minor-Tick and Log Minor-Tick Support

4packages depend

26Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron RobothamFirst published 2012-08-1521 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions to make useful (and pretty) plots for scientific plotting. Additional plotting features are added for base plotting, with particular emphasis on making attractive log axis plots.

Install

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

install.packages("magicaxis", 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-magicaxis

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-magicaxis

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-magicaxis

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 130 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

grDevicesgraphicsstatscelestialMASSplotrix sm mapproj RANN

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

hyper.fit PAFit nbody ParmOff

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Aaron Robotham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Aaron Robotham

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-08-15
Total releases: 21 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 3.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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