R Observatory: Metrics for SimSurvey version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SimSurvey

0.1.8Package record

Test Surveys by Simulating Spatially-Correlated Populations

0packages depend

6.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul RegularCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simulate age-structured populations that vary in space and time and explore the efficacy of a range of built-in or user-defined sampling protocols to reproduce the population parameters of the known population. (See Regular et al. (2020) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0232822 for more details).

Changes in 0.1.8

Add Matrix to Imports so lazy-loaded mesh data (survey_mesh, survey_lite_mesh) pass checks. No user-visible changes; API and results unchanged.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SimSurvey", 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("PaulRegular/SimSurvey")

Development version from PaulRegular/SimSurvey. 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-simsurvey

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-SimSurvey

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-SimSurvey

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: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

READMEYes · 168 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 35 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 44%8 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 62%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (1)

Custom closures HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,014 · ~18/day · ~554/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40430 days

1.1K90 days

6.6K1 year

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Also on129 r2u3 autocran148 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

paulregular/simsurvey ↗Account: PaulRegular

13Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

532Commits

4Commit identities

simulation-testinganalysissurvey-designfisheries-research

532 commits · Last activity 2025-09-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-07 · 112026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulregular/simsurvey on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SimSurvey adds 81 packages (42 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

sf stars data.table progress doParallelparallelforeach plotly rlang lifecycleMatrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

fields rmarkdown flexdashboard shiny crosstalk htmltools viridis lme4 ggplot2 INLA INLAspacetime knitr bezier

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Paul Regular

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2020)

Jonathan Babyn

Contributor

Greg Robertson

Contributor

Releases (7)

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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
0.1.6
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added 1 export
sim_nlf
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-08-10
issues were not corrected in time
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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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2020-09-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-09
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 4 files
Download size: 2.9 MB

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Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("SimSurvey")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1371/journal.pone.0232822.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SimSurvey version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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