R Observatory: Metrics for PhysMove version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PhysMove

1.2.5Package record

Quantifying Animal Movement and Space-Use Patterns with Statistical Physics

0packages depend

834downloads / year

0.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hannah J. CalichCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools to analyse animal movement and space-use patterns from telemetry data using methods derived from statistical physics. Methods span displacement-based approaches, distribution fitting, space-use metrics (including the influence of correlations on space-use), network-based community detection, and measures of entropy and predictability. The package enables characterisation of these patterns across spatial and temporal scales, including variation within and among individuals (inter- and intraspecific analyses). Outputs include interpretable metrics and visualisations to support ecological analysis and the investigation of fundamental movement processes. For applications of these methods in ecological studies see Rodríguez et al. (2017) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00165-0 and Sequeira et al. (2018) doi:10.1073/pnas.1716137115.

Changes in 1.2.5

[FIX] Renamed normalised argument to normalise in plotDispPDF() for spelling consistency
[FIX] Corrected intercept (was 1, now 0) for the 1:1 reference line plotted by randomise()
[DOC] Corrected randomise() documentation describing the lm parameter's target/predictor roles and coefficient-extraction example
[DOC] Corrected turningAngles() documentation search-window example (18–30 hours, not 18–32)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PhysMove", 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("HannahCalich/PhysMove")

Development version from HannahCalich/PhysMove. 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-physmove

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-PhysMove

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-PhysMove

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: 6.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK7 OK2026-08-05

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2.5

READMEYes · 381 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 32
Examples that run: 72%13 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

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Downloads

834

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,004 · ~2/day · ~70/mo

Releases R versions

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29530 days

83490 days

8341 year

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Repository

hannahcalich/physmove ↗Account: HannahCalich

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

922Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 922 commits · Last activity 2026-09-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-08-05 · 02026-09-22 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hannahcalich/physmove on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PhysMove adds 43 packages (25 with compiled code, 51 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (14)

broom ggplot2graphicsgrDevicesgridmethodspoweRlaw RColorBrewer rlang rootSolve scales sfstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

emln infomapecology kableExtra (>= 1.3.4)knitr maps officedown (>= 0.3.0)rmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.1.9)

Enhances (0)

none

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-04
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: HannahCalich.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Bundled data: 2.8 MB / 13 files
Download size: 7.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("PhysMove")

Format

Calich, H. J., Eguíluz, V., Rodríguez, J., & Sequeira, A. M. M. (2026). PhysMove: Quantifying Animal Movement and Space-Use Patterns with Statistical Physics (Version 1.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PhysMove

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The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PhysMove version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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