R Observatory: Metrics for ForIT version 2.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ForIT

2.5.2

Functions to Estimate Tree Volume and Phytomass in the Italian Forest Inventory 2005

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3.3Kdownloads / year

48.6%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicola PulettiFirst published 2014-07-056 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Tabacchi et al. (2011) published a very detailed study producing a uniform system of functions to estimate tree volume and phytomass components (stem, branches, stool). The estimates of the 2005 Italian forest inventory (https://www.inventarioforestale.org/it/) are based on these functions. The study documents the domain of applicability of each function and the equations to quantify estimates accuracies for individual estimates as well as for aggregated estimates. This package makes the functions available in the R environment. Version 2 exposes two distinct functions for individual and summary estimates. To facilitate access to the functions, tree species identification is now based on EPPO species codes (https://data.eppo.int/).

Install

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

install.packages("ForIT", 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("NuoroForestrySchool/ForIT.git")

Development version from NuoroForestrySchool/ForIT.git. 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-forit

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-ForIT

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-ForIT

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

48.6%

Coverage · measured lines

90%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 999 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 20%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,206 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

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Repository

GitLab ↗ nuoroforestryschool/forit

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

magrittr dplyr purrr tibble tidyr RColorBrewer metR rlang ggplot2Matrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Nicola Puletti

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Nicola Puletti

Author, Maintainer

Mirko Grotti

Author · added in 2.0.1

Roberto Scotti

Author

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Cristiano Castaldi

no longer listed · 1.0

Ugo Chiavetta

no longer listed · 1.0

Maurizio Marchi

no longer listed · 1.0

Marco Mura

no longer listed · 1.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-05
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 3.4 MB / 8 files
Download size: 3.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Puletti, N., Grotti, M., & Scotti, R. (2025). ForIT: Functions to Estimate Tree Volume and Phytomass in the Italian Forest Inventory 2005 (Version 2.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ForIT

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ForIT version 2.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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