R Observatory: Metrics for LadderFuelsR version 0.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

LadderFuelsR

0.0.7

Automated Tool for Vertical Fuel Continuity Analysis using Airborne Laser Scanning Data

0packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

1/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Olga ViedmaFirst published 2023-12-137 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Set of tools for analyzing vertical fuel continuity at the tree level using Airborne Laser Scanning data. The workflow consisted of: 1) calculating the vertical height profiles of each segmented tree; 2) identifying gaps and fuel layers; 3) estimating the distance between fuel layers; and 4) retrieving the fuel layers base height and depth. Additionally, other functions recalculate previous metrics after considering distances greater than certain threshold. Moreover, the package calculates: i) the percentage of Leaf Area Density comprised in each fuel layer, ii) remove fuel layers with Leaf Area Density (LAD) percentage less than 10, and iii) recalculate the distances among the reminder ones. On the other hand, it identifies the crown base height (CBH) based on different criteria: the fuel layer with the highest LAD percentage and the fuel layers located at the largest- and at the last-distance. When there is only one fuel layer, it also identifies the CBH performing a segmented linear regression (breaking points) on the cumulative sum of LAD as a function of height. Finally, a collection of plotting functions is developed to represent: i) the initial gaps and fuel layers; ii) the fuels base height, depths and gaps with distances greater than certain threshold and, iii) the CBH based on different criteria. The methods implemented in this package are original and have not been published elsewhere.

Install

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

install.packages("LadderFuelsR", 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("olgaviedma/LadderFuelsR")

Development version from olgaviedma/LadderFuelsR. 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-ladderfuelsr

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-LadderFuelsR

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-LadderFuelsR

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

Health

CRAN checks

12NOTE1OK

Failing flavors

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
4 OK · 10 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 644 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,315 · ~18/day · ~556/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ olgaviedma/ladderfuelsr

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ladderfuelsr

202 commits · Last activity 2024-11-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-10-01 · 72026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

dplyr gdata ggplot2 magrittr segmented stringr tidyr tibble tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Olga Viedma

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Olga Viedma

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Andrew T. Hudak

Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.0.5

Jose Manuel Moreno

Author, Copyright holder

Carlos Alberto Silva

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (4)

Olga Viedma

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Andrew T. Hudak

Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.0.5

Jose Manuel Moreno

Author, Copyright holder

Carlos Alberto Silva

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.0.7Latest
2024-11-02 · current release · diff ↗
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2024-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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0.0.2
2024-01-14 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2023-12-13
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-12-13
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Viedma, O., Hudak, A. T., Moreno, J. M., & Silva, C. A. (2024). LadderFuelsR: Automated Tool for Vertical Fuel Continuity Analysis using Airborne Laser Scanning Data (Version 0.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.LadderFuelsR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for LadderFuelsR version 0.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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