R Observatory: Metrics for TR8 version 0.9.23

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TR8

0.9.23Package record

A Tool for Downloading Functional Traits Data for Plant Species

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.6Kdownloads / year

1.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gionata BocciCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Plant ecologists often need to collect "traits" data about plant species which are often scattered among various databases: TR8 contains a set of tools which take care of automatically retrieving some of those functional traits data for plant species from publicly available databases (The Ecological Flora of the British Isles, LEDA traitbase, Ellenberg values for Italian Flora, Mycorrhizal intensity databases, BROT, PLANTS, Jepson Flora Project). The TR8 name, inspired by "car plates" jokes, was chosen since it both reminds of the main object of the package and is extremely short to type.

Install

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

install.packages("TR8", 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("GioBo/TR8")

Development version from GioBo/TR8. 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-tr8

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-TR8

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-TR8

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.23

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 41%7 run in a plain check · 7 never run · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 71%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,860 · ~10/day · ~302/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44130 days

1.1K90 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on80 r2u3 autocran50 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

giobo/tr8 ↗Account: GioBo

23Stars

7Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

290Commits

4Commit identities

290 commits · Last activity 2024-09-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 138
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 222026-07-07 · 23

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/giobo/tr8 on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2016-12-20

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TR8 adds 51 packages (29 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0methodsstatsutils

Imports (8)

RCurl XML dplyr plyr reshape rappdirs readxl shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

taxify

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Gionata Bocci

Author, Maintainer since 0.8 (2014)

Releases (14)

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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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2024-09-22 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.9.22
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2020-12-01 · diff ↗
0.9.21
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2020-05-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-04-10
0.9.20
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2019-04-10 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-01-24
check issues were not corrected in time
0.9.19
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2018-12-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.9.18
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2017-09-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.9.16
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2017-03-16 · diff ↗
0.9.15
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2016-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
tr8_setup
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.9.14
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2016-03-31 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.9.13
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2015-03-22 · diff ↗
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2015-03-04 · diff ↗
0.9.11
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2014-10-31 · diff ↗
0.9
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2014-10-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
leda_download_to_local_directory

added 1 export
available_traits
0.8
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2014-08-26
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-26
Total releases: 14 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 271 KB / 9 files
Download size: 904 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("TR8")

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

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.12327.

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 TR8 version 0.9.23 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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