R Observatory: Metrics for PhysMove version 1.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PhysMove

1.2.4

Quantifying Animal Movement and Space-Use Patterns with Statistical Physics

0packages depend

135downloads / year

0.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hannah J. CalichFirst published 2026-08-041 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Fedora (COPR)

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.

# 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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

0.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

14

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 421 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 72%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

135

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,579 · ~0/day · ~11/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hannahcalich/physmove

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License GPL-3.0 · 919 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (14)

broom ggplot2graphicsgrDevicesgridmethodspoweRlaw RColorBrewer rlang rootSolve scales sfstatsutils

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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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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Hannah J. Calich

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (4)

Hannah J. Calich

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Víctor Eguíluz

Author

Jorge Rodríguez

Author

Ana M. M. Sequeira

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Hannah J. Calich

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.4Latest
2026-08-04 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: HannahCalich.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Bundled data: 2.8 MB / 13 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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 1.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PhysMove

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PhysMove version 1.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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