R Observatory: Metrics for SoilTaxonomy version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SoilTaxonomy

0.2.8Package record

A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys

0packages dependsuggested by 2

4.9Kdownloads / year

94.2%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew BrownCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.2.8

Update data sets for soilDB 2.8.11 and NASIS data model 7.4.3
parse_family(): Remove patch for "diatomaceous" mineralogy class in NASIS metadata

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  SoilTaxonomy/tests/testthat/test-getChildTaxa.R (.Names: 1)
  SoilTaxonomy/tests/testthat/test-higherTaxaCodes.R (.Names: 2)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-03

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.8

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.8Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 36 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%26 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,532 · ~14/day · ~411/mo

Releases R versions

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42130 days

1.1K90 days

4.9K1 year

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Also on94 r2u5 autocran72 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ncss-tech/soiltaxonomy ↗Organization: ncss-tech

20Stars

3Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

371Commits

4Commit identities

soilsoil-surveysoil-taxonomysubordergreat-groupsubgroupncss-techusda

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 371 commits · Last activity 2026-06-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 6 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 627
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 192026-07-07 · 20

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/ncss-tech/soiltaxonomy on 2026-10-25.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SoilTaxonomy adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

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

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

sharpshootR soilKey

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2021)

Dylan Beaudette

Author

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.8Latest
record
2025-07-11 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.7
record
2025-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getTaxonCriteria, getTaxonSMR
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.4
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2023-11-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.3
record
2023-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
SoilTaxonomy.env, level_hierarchy, taxonTree
0.2.2
record
2022-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
SoilMoistureRegimeLevels, SoilTaxonomyLevels, SoilTemperatureRegimeLevels, child_level, extractSMR, get_ST_formative_elements, newick_string, parent_level
0.2.0
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2022-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_ST_family_classes
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.4
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2021-08-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.3
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2021-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
code_to_level, getChildTaxa
0.1.2
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2021-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
getLastChildTaxon, get_ST_features, level_to_taxon, parse_family, taxon_to_level
0.1
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2021-02-25

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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

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Agricultural Science

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citation("SoilTaxonomy")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SoilTaxonomy version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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