R Observatory: Metrics for ALUES version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ALUES

0.2.1Package record

Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

78.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Al-Ahmadgaid B. AsaadCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Evaluates land suitability for different crops production. The package is based on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) methodology for land evaluation. Development of ALUES is inspired by similar tool for land evaluation, Land Use Suitability Evaluation Tool (LUSET). The package uses fuzzy logic approach to evaluate land suitability of a particular area based on inputs such as rainfall, temperature, topography, and soil properties. The membership functions used for fuzzy modeling are the following: Triangular, Trapezoidal and Gaussian. The methods for computing the overall suitability of a particular area are also included, and these are the Minimum, Maximum and Average. Finally, ALUES is a highly optimized library with core algorithms written in C++.

Install

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

install.packages("ALUES", 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("alstat/ALUES")

Development version from alstat/ALUES. 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-alues

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-ALUES

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-ALUES

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-13

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 218 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 234includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,063 · ~10/day · ~291/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43130 days

1.1K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on402 r2u33 autocran126 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

alstat/alues ↗Account: alstat

17Stars

8Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

211Commits

6Commit identities

rr-packageagricultureagricultural-modelling

211 commits · Last activity 2022-06-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 46
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 122026-08-25 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alstat/alues on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-06-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ALUES adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0Rcpp

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (7)

testthat markdown knitr microbenchmark ggmap raster reshape2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Al-Ahmadgaid B. Asaad

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2022)

Arnold R. Salvacion

Author

Bui Tan Yen

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.1Latest
record
2022-01-12 · current release
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-12
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 172 KB / 230 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ALUES")

Format

Asaad, A. B., Salvacion, A. R., & Tan Yen, B. (2022). ALUES: Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ALUES

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ALUES version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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