R Observatory: Metrics for BoundaryStats version 2.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BoundaryStats

2.3.0Package record

Boundary Overlap Statistics

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Amy LuoCRAN page ↗

Analysis workflow for finding geographic boundaries of ecological or landscape traits and comparing the placement of geographic boundaries of two traits. If data are trait values, trait data are transformed to boundary intensities based on approximate first derivatives across latitude and longitude. The package includes functions to create custom null models based on the input data. The boundary statistics are described in: Fortin, Drapeau, and Jacquez (1996) doi:10.2307/3545584.

Changes in 2.3.0

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Updates

length of boundaries is calculated as distance from farthest points through edges of a subgraph of adjacent boundary elements, instead of straight line between points
Gaussian neutral model uses autocorrelation range based on variogram, rather than LISA clusters
categorical_boundary function deprecated, and functionality merged with define_boundary function
renamed statistical test functions to improve clarity
plot_boundary now optionally returns a SpatRaster object with boundary elements and boundary element overlaps
removed dependencies on sf and pdqr
added dependency on gstat

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("BoundaryStats", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-boundarystats

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-BoundaryStats

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-BoundaryStats

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: 9.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.3.0

READMEYes · 319 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 35
Examples that run: 29%4 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 91%

Vignettes (1)

BoundaryStats Analysis Workflow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,212 · ~8/day · ~246/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36830 days

90690 days

3K1 year

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Also on89 r2u43 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BoundaryStats adds 50 packages (32 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

terra gstatmethodsggplot2 tibble dplyr magrittr igraph fields scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (2)

Amy Luo

Elizabeth Derryberry

Thesis advisor

Releases (4)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.0Latest
record
2025-07-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
Odirect, Ox, Oxy, lisa_clusters, max_subgraph, n_subgraph

added 5 exports
average_min_distance, average_min_x_to_y, longest_boundary, n_boundaries, n_overlap_boundaries
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.2.0
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2024-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lisa_clusters
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.1.1
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2023-10-21 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2023-06-28
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-28
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 9.3 KB / 7 files
Download size: 94 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BoundaryStats")

Format

Luo, A., & Derryberry, E. (2025). BoundaryStats: Boundary Overlap Statistics (Version 2.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BoundaryStats

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BoundaryStats version 2.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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