R Observatory: Metrics for PBSmodelling version 2.70.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PBSmodelling

2.70.2Package record

GUI Tools Made Easy: Interact with Models and Explore Data

2packages dependsuggested by 1

19.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nick FischCRAN 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. 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-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). 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

1NOTE12OK

Check messages

NOTEcompiled coder-oldrel-macos-arm64

File ‘PBSmodelling/libs/PBSmodelling.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘SET_TYPEOF’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.70.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 127includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%36 run in a plain check · 36 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to PBSmodelling PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

19.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,399 · ~53/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.2K90 days

19.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on468 r2u7 autocran183 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pbs-software/pbs-modelling ↗Organization: pbs-software

2Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

237Commits

6Commit identities

237 commits · Last activity 2025-11-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 10

Stars over time

2021-07-24 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pbs-software/pbs-modelling on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PBSmodelling adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 937 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: XML 937 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (3)

methodstcltkXML

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

PBSmapping deSolveKernSmooth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PredictABEL PBSadmb

Suggests, most downloaded first

PBSddesolve

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Nick Fisch

Maintainer since 2.70.2 (2025) · added in 2.70.2

Nicholas Boers

Author · added in 2.65.260

Alex Couture-Beil

Author

Anisa Egeli

Author · added in 2.01

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor · added in 2.68.6

Norm Olsen

Contributor · added in 2.68.6

Previously maintained by Rowan Haigh (2.66.264 to 2.69.3) and Jon T. Schnute (0.60 to 2.65.260).

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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A.R. Kronlund

no longer listed · 2.61.209 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

Releases (27)

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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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pattern:^\\.add, pattern:^\\.auto, pattern:^\\.build, pattern:^\\.cat, pattern:^\\.check, pattern:^\\.clean, pattern:^\\.close, pattern:^\\.convert, pattern:^\\.create, pattern:^\\.d[CU], pattern:^\\.do, pattern:^\\.extract, pattern:^\\.fib, pattern:^\\.find, pattern:^\\.force, pattern:^\\.get, pattern:^\\.gui, pattern:^\\.in, pattern:^\\.load, pattern:^\\.make, pattern:^\\.map, pattern:^\\.matrix, pattern:^\\.max, pattern:^\\.merge, pattern:^\\.next, pattern:^\\.options, pattern:^\\.pack, pattern:^\\.parse, pattern:^\\.PBS, pattern:^\\.pFormat and 26 more

added 1 export
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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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

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Format

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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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PBSmodelling version 2.70.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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