rotations: A package for working with rotation data.

In rotations: Working with Rotation Data

A package for working with rotation data.

Description

This package implements tools for working with rotational data: it allows simulation from the most commonly used distributions on SO(3), it includes methods for different mean and median type estimators for the central orientation of a sample, it provides confidence regions for those estimates and it includes a novel visualization technique for rotation data.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Bryan Stanfill [e-mail]

Authors:

• Heike Hofmann

• Ulrike Genschel

Other contributors:

• Aymeric Stamm [e-mail] (ORCID) [contributor]

• Luciano Selzer [contributor]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/stanfill/rotationsC

• Report bugs at https://github.com/stanfill/rotationsC/issues

rotations documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 5:39 p.m.