R Observatory: Metrics for FIESTA version 3.7.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FIESTA needs sae (through FIESTAutils), which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 2.

FIESTA

3.7.1Package record

Forest Inventory Estimation and Analysis

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

23.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Grayson WhiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A research estimation tool for analysts that work with sample-based inventory data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program.

Install

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

install.packages("FIESTA", 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("USDAForestService/FIESTA")

Development version from USDAForestService/FIESTA. 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-fiesta

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-FIESTA

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 9.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.7.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 3.7.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 92 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 39%20 run in a plain check · 19 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 11 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,520 · ~11/day · ~335/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47030 days

1.2K90 days

4K1 year

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Also on127 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

usdaforestservice/fiesta ↗Organization: USDAForestService

36Stars

12Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

20Releases

1,937Commits

14Commit identities

1,937 commits · Last activity 2026-05-22 · Default branch at 3.7.1.9120, ahead of CRAN 3.7.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 118
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/usdaforestservice/fiesta on 2026-10-18.

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)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-08

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FIESTA adds 74 packages (47 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (11)

data.table DBI FIESTAutils gdalrastergrDevicesgraphicsmethodsRSQLite sf sqldfutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr terra rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

sae through FIESTAutilsfix by Nov 2

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Grayson White

Author, Maintainer since 3.4.0 (2022)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 3.6.0

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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removed 6 exports
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added 4 exports
datSum_options, database_options, spAlignRast, tableIDs
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added 3 exports
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removed 1 export
DEFAULT_NODATA

added 9 exports
datLUTspp, ref_cond, ref_conversion, ref_plt, ref_popType, ref_shp, ref_species, ref_titles, ref_tree
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-19
Total releases: 15 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: See file COPYRIGHTS for details.
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 610 KB / 12 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("FIESTA")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 FIESTA version 3.7.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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