R Observatory: Metrics for SoilTaxonomy version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SoilTaxonomy

0.2.8

A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys

2packages depend

5.5Kdownloads / year

94.2%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew BrownFirst published 2021-02-2510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Taxonomic dictionaries, formative element lists, and functions related to the maintenance, development and application of U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Data and functionality are based on official U.S. Department of Agriculture sources including the latest edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Descriptions and metadata are obtained from the National Soil Information System or Soil Survey Geographic databases. Other sources are referenced in the data documentation. Provides tools for understanding and interacting with concepts in the U.S. Soil Taxonomic System. Most of the current utilities are for working with taxonomic concepts at the "higher" taxonomic levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, and Subgroup.

Install

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

install.packages("SoilTaxonomy", 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("ncss-tech/SoilTaxonomy")

Development version from ncss-tech/SoilTaxonomy. 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-soiltaxonomy

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-SoilTaxonomy

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-SoilTaxonomy

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

94.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-03
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,697 · ~15/day · ~462/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ncss-tech/soiltaxonomy

20Stars

3Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

371Commits

4Contributors

soilsoil-surveysoil-taxonomysubordergreat-groupsubgroupncss-techusda

License GPL-3.0 · 371 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (4)

statsutilsstringr data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr rmarkdown markdown soilDB ape data.tree

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

sharpshootR soilKey

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer

Dylan Beaudette

Author

Package Timeline

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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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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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Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-25
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 231 KB / 10 files
Download size: 306 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Brown, A., & Beaudette, D. (2025). SoilTaxonomy: A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SoilTaxonomy

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SoilTaxonomy version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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