R Observatory: Metrics for PBSmodelling version 2.70.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PBSmodelling

2.70.2

GUI Tools Made Easy: Interact with Models and Explore Data

3packages depend

21.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nick FischFirst published 2006-08-3027 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides software to facilitate the design, testing, and operation of computer models. It focuses particularly on tools that make it easy to construct and edit a customized graphical user interface ('GUI'). Although our simplified 'GUI' language depends heavily on the R interface to the 'Tcl/Tk' package, a user does not need to know 'Tcl/Tk'. Examples illustrate models built with other R packages, including 'PBSmapping', 'PBSddesolve', and 'BRugs'. A complete user's guide 'PBSmodelling-UG.pdf' shows how to use this package effectively.

Install

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

install.packages("PBSmodelling", 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("pbs-software/pbs-modelling")

Development version from pbs-software/pbs-modelling. 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-pbsmodelling

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-PBSmodelling

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-PBSmodelling

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 51%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 3%

Downloads

21.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,060 · ~60/day · ~1.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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91930 days

4.1K90 days

21.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pbs-software/pbs-modelling

2Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

237Commits

6Contributors

237 commits · Last activity 2025-11-13

Stars over time

2021-07-24 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pbs-software/pbs-modelling on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (3)

methodstcltkXML

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

PBSmapping deSolveKernSmooth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

PBSadmb PredictABEL PBSddesolve

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Nick Fisch

Maintainer · added in 2.70.2

Authors (5)

Nicholas Boers

Author · added in 2.68.6

Alex Couture-Beil

Author

Anisa Egeli

Author · added in 2.68.6

Rowan Haigh

Author · added in 2.01

Jon T. Schnute

Author

Contributors (3)

A. R. Kronlund

Contributor

Steve Martell

Contributor · added in 2.68.6

Norm Olsen

Contributor · added in 2.68.6

Listed in earlier versions (7)

and Rowan Haigh

no longer listed · 0.60 to 1.63

and Anisa Egeli

no longer listed · 2.01 to 2.60.208

and A.R. (Rob) Kronlund

no longer listed · 2.61.209 to 2.64.236

and Nicholas Boers

no longer listed · 2.65.260 to 2.67.266

A.R. (Rob) Kronlund

no longer listed · 2.65.260 to 2.67.266

A. R.

no longer listed · 2.68.6 to 2.70.2

Jon T.

no longer listed · 2.68.6 to 2.70.2

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-08-30
Total releases: 27 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 1.2 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Fisch, N., Boers, N., Couture-Beil, A., Egeli, A., Haigh, R., Kronlund, A. R., Martell, S., Olsen, N., & Schnute, J. T. (2025). PBSmodelling: GUI Tools Made Easy: Interact with Models and Explore Data (Version 2.70.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PBSmodelling

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