R Observatory: Metrics for MBHdesign version 2.3.22

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MBHdesign

2.3.22Package record

Spatial Designs for Ecological and Environmental Surveys

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4.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Scott FosterCRAN page ↗

Provides spatially survey balanced designs. Information about the package itself is given in Foster (2021) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13535. Designs using MBHdesign can: 1) accommodate, without substantial detrimental effects on spatial balance, legacy sites (Foster et al., 2017 doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12782); 2) be based on points or transects (foster et al. 2020 doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13321 and produce clustered samples (Foster et al. (in press). The base idea that these designs stem from is the quasi-random number method described Robinson et al. (2013) doi:10.1111/biom.12059 and adjusted in Robinson et al. (2017) doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004.

Install

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

install.packages("MBHdesign", 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-mbhdesign

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-MBHdesign

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-MBHdesign

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: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-17
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-27
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09

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NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.3.22

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 50%2 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

An Introduction to MBHdesign PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,829 · ~13/day · ~406/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67930 days

1.4K90 days

4.9K1 year

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Also on104 r2u6 autocran101 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MBHdesign adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 7.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, terra 1.5 MB, randtoolbox 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

mgcvgeometry randtoolbox mvtnormstatsclassparallelgrDevicesgraphicsterra

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

spsurveyMASSfields knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (2)

Scott Foster

Maintainer · added in 2.3.22

Scott D. Foster

Author

Maintainer since 1.0.60 (2016)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Foster

no longer listed · 2.3.22

Releases (15)

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-09-11
2.3.22Latest
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2026-09-06
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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2019-10-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
transectSamp, findDescendingTrans, findTransFromPoint
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-11-20
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-20
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 516 KB

Appears in task views

Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data Official Statistics & Survey Statistics Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MBHdesign")

Format

Foster, S., & Foster, S. D. (2026). MBHdesign: Spatial Designs for Ecological and Environmental Surveys (Version 2.3.22) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MBHdesign

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MBHdesign version 2.3.22 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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