packcircles

0.3.7

Circle Packing

6packages depend

47.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael BedwardFirst published 2015-07-2610 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Algorithms to find arrangements of non-overlapping circles.

Install

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

install.packages("packcircles", 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("mbedward/packcircles")

Development version from mbedward/packcircles. 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-packcircles

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-packcircles

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 390 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

47.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,669 · ~131/day · ~4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

7.5K90 days

47.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mbedward/packcircles

59Stars

7Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

91Commits

2Contributors

91 commits · Last activity 2024-11-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-15 · 572026-07-07 · 59

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mbedward/packcircles on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (2)

Rcpp checkmate

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (5)

ggiraph ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown lpSolve

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

2indirect

PhytoIn SUNGEO cartogram ggautomap tastypie vayr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Bedward

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Michael Bedward

Author, Maintainer

David Eppstein

Author

Peter Menzel

Author · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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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
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2015-07-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-26
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 3.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 327 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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