waves

0.2.7

Vis-NIR Spectral Analysis Wrapper

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2.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jenna HershbergerFirst published 2020-09-1710 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Originally designed application in the context of resource-limited plant research and breeding programs, 'waves' provides an open-source solution to spectral data processing and model development by bringing useful packages together into a streamlined pipeline. This package is wrapper for functions related to the analysis of point visible and near-infrared reflectance measurements. It includes visualization, filtering, aggregation, preprocessing, cross-validation set formation, model training, and prediction functions to enable open-source association of spectral and reference data. This package is documented in a peer-reviewed manuscript in the Plant Phenome Journal doi:10.1002/ppj2.20012. Specialized cross-validation schemes are described in detail in Jarquín et al. (2017) doi:10.3835/plantgenome2016.12.0130. Example data is from Ikeogu et al. (2017) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188918.

Install

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

install.packages("waves", 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("GoreLab/waves")

Development version from GoreLab/waves. 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-waves

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-waves

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-waves

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-04-25
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OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 551 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

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Rank #11,074 · ~7/day · ~213/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gorelab/waves

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6Forks

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10Releases

186Commits

3Contributors

186 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

caret dplyr ggplot2 lifecycle magrittr pls prospectr randomForest readr rlang scales spectacles stringr tibble tidyr tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Jenna Hershberger

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jenna Hershberger

Author, Maintainer

Funders (1)

NSF BREAD IOS-1543958

Funder

Other (1)

Michael Gore

Thesis advisor

Package Timeline

10 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.2.7Latest
2026-06-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.6
2025-10-31 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-10-31
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-06-02
requires archived package 'spectacles'
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.5
2023-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.4
2022-03-29 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2022-03-07 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2022-02-18 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2022-02-03 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-01-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.1.1
2021-04-21 · diff ↗
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2020-09-17
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-17
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 1 file
Download size: 2.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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