rotations

1.6.7

Working with Rotation Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Bryan StanfillFirst published 2013-09-0918 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for working with rotational data, including simulation from the most commonly used distributions on SO(3), methods for different Bayes, mean and median type estimators for the central orientation of a sample, confidence/credible regions for the central orientation based on those estimators and a novel visualization technique for rotation data. Most recently, functions to identify potentially discordant (outlying) values have been added. References: Bingham, Melissa A. and Nordman, Dan J. and Vardeman, Steve B. (2009), Bingham, Melissa A and Vardeman, Stephen B and Nordman, Daniel J (2009), Bingham, Melissa A and Nordman, Daniel J and Vardeman, Stephen B (2010), Leon, C.A. and Masse, J.C. and Rivest, L.P. (2006), Hartley, R and Aftab, K and Trumpf, J. (2011), Stanfill, Bryan and Genschel, Ulrike and Hofmann, Heike (2013), Maonton, Jonathan (2004), Mardia, KV and Jupp, PE (2000, ISBN:9780471953333), Rancourt, D. and Rivest, L.P. and Asselin, J. (2000), Chang, Ted and Rivest, Louis-Paul (2001), Fisher, Nicholas I. (1996, ISBN:0521568900).

Install

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

install.packages("rotations", 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("stanfill/rotationsC")

Development version from stanfill/rotationsC. 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-rotations

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-rotations

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stanfill/rotationsc

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (3)

ggplot2 gridExtra Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (5)

knitr onion orientlib testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Bryan Stanfill

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Bryan Stanfill

Author, Maintainer

Ulrike Genschel

Author

Heike Hofmann

Author

Contributors (2)

Luciano Selzer

Contributor · added in 1.6

Aymeric Stamm

Contributor · added in 1.6

Package Timeline

18 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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2021-02-25
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-09-09
Total releases: 18 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.7 MB
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