R Observatory: Metrics for SpatEntropy version 2.2-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SpatEntropy

2.2-4

Spatial Entropy Measures

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Overview

About

Maintained by Altieri LindaFirst published 2018-02-288 releasesCRAN page ↗

The heterogeneity of spatial data presenting a finite number of categories can be measured via computation of spatial entropy. Functions are available for the computation of the main entropy and spatial entropy measures in the literature. They include the traditional version of Shannon's entropy (Shannon, 1948 doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x), Batty's spatial entropy (Batty, 1974 doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1974.tb01014.x), O'Neill's entropy (O'Neill et al., 1998 doi:10.1007/BF00162741), Li and Reynolds' contagion index (Li and Reynolds, 1993 doi:10.1007/BF00125347), Karlstrom and Ceccato's entropy (Karlstrom and Ceccato, 2002 https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-61351), Leibovici's entropy (Leibovici, 2009 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_24), Parresol and Edwards' entropy (Parresol and Edwards, 2014 doi:10.3390/e16041842) and Altieri's entropy (Altieri et al., 2018, doi:10.1007/s10651-017-0383-1). Full references for all measures can be found under the topic 'SpatEntropy'. The package is able to work with lattice and point data. The updated version works with the updated 'spatstat' package (>= 3.0-2).

Install

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

install.packages("SpatEntropy", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-spatentropy

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-SpatEntropy

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-SpatEntropy

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Coverage

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Check history

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,442 · ~12/day · ~358/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0spatstat

Imports (4)

spatstat.geom spatstat.randomgraphicsgrDevices

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Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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mxfda

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People & History

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Listed in earlier versions (3)

L. Altieri

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 2.2-4

D. Cocchi

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 2.2-4

G. Roli

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 2.2-4

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-28
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 294 KB / 9 files
Download size: 330 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SpatEntropy version 2.2-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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