R Observatory: Metrics for TrenchR version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TrenchR

1.2.1Package record

Tools for Microclimate and Biophysical Ecology

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

97.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lauren BuckleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for translating environmental change into organismal response. Microclimate models to vertically scale weather station data to organismal heights. The biophysical modeling tools include both general models for heat flows and specific models to predict body temperatures for a variety of ectothermic taxa. Additional functions model and temporally partition air and soil temperatures and solar radiation. Utility functions estimate the organismal and environmental parameters needed for biophysical ecology. 'TrenchR' focuses on relatively simple and modular functions so users can create transparent and flexible biophysical models. Many functions are derived from Gates (1980) doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-6024-0 and Campbell and Norman (1988) <isbn:9780387949376>.

Changes in 1.2.1

*2026-04-28*

Minor version release

Improved error checking and commenting.
Vectorized some functions.
No backwards compatibility is ensured.
Several bug fixes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TrenchR", 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("trenchproject/TrenchR")

Development version from trenchproject/TrenchR. 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-trenchr

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-TrenchR

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-TrenchR

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: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-14
OK13 OK2026-08-23
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-16
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-28
OK13 OK2026-05-07
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMEYes · 541 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 86 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%85 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 95% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (4)

Allometries and conversions HTML
Estimating microclimates HTML
List of symbols HTML
Using energy balances to estimate body temperatures HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,148 · ~10/day · ~308/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33530 days

1.1K90 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

trenchproject/trenchr ↗Organization: trenchproject

18Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

770Commits

14Commit identities

770 commits · Last activity 2026-04-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 132026-08-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/trenchproject/trenchr 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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TrenchR adds 18 packages (13 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: deSolve 1.9 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.1

Imports (5)

deSolve msm Rdpackstatszoo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Lauren Buckley

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

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Releases (4)

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1.2.1Latest
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-13
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.1
Download size: 2.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("TrenchR")

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

It points to 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000139.

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 TrenchR version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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