nat.nblast

1.6.9

NeuroAnatomy Toolbox ('nat') Extension for Assessing Neuron Similarity and Clustering

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6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gregory JefferisFirst published 2014-09-196 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extends package 'nat' (NeuroAnatomy Toolbox) by providing a collection of NBLAST-related functions for neuronal morphology comparison (Costa et al. (2016) <doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.012>).

Install

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

install.packages("nat.nblast", 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("natverse/nat.nblast")

Development version from natverse/nat.nblast. 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-nat.nblast

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-nat.nblast

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-nat.nblast

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 231 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,224 · ~17/day · ~526/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ natverse/nat.nblast

17Stars

6Forks

14Open issues

4Open PRs

8Releases

368Commits

4Contributors

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368 commits · Last activity 2026-02-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.15.1rglmethodsnat

Imports (4)

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none

Suggests (6)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gregory Jefferis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.6.5

Authors (2)

Gregory Jefferis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.6.5

James Manton

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Greg Jefferis

no longer listed · 1.5 to 1.6.2

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
1.6.9Latest
2026-02-03 · current release · diff ↗
1.6.8
2025-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.6.7
2023-06-14 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-14
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-06-05
requires archived package 'nat'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
1.6.5
2020-01-23 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-01-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-12-17
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.6.2
2016-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.5
2014-09-19
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-19
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.1
Bundled data: 121 KB / 3 files
Download size: 806 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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