R Observatory: Metrics for Xcertainty version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Xcertainty

1.0.1Package record

Estimating Lengths and Uncertainty from Photogrammetric Imagery

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by K.C. BierlichCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implementation of Bayesian models for estimating object lengths and morphological relationships between object lengths using photographic data collected from drones. The Bayesian model is described in "Bayesian approach for predicting photogrammetric uncertainty in morphometric measurements derived from drones" (Bierlich et al., 2021, doi:10.3354/meps13814).

Changes in 1.0.1

Fixed vignettes (Xcetainty, Xcertainty_informative_priors, and Xcertainty_growth_curves). Figures were not displaying properly in initial release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Xcertainty", 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("MMI-CODEX/Xcertainty")

Development version from MMI-CODEX/Xcertainty. 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-xcertainty

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-Xcertainty

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-Xcertainty

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-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

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

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Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,108 · ~16/day · ~483/mo

Releases R versions

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35630 days

1K90 days

5.8K1 year

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Repository

mmi-codex/xcertainty ↗Organization: MMI-CODEX

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

73Commits

4Commit identities

73 commits · Last activity 2025-05-28

Responsiveness

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mmi-codex/xcertainty on 2026-10-25.

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Xcertainty adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, nimble 3.2 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.2nimble

Imports (3)

tidyr dplyr coda

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown stringr ggdist tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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Datasets

People & History

People (3)

K.C. Bierlich

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Joshua Hewitt

Author

Enrico Pirotta

Author

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-21
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 412 KB / 8 files
Download size: 1.9 MB

Cite

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citation("Xcertainty")

Format

Bierlich, K. C., Hewitt, J., & Pirotta, E. (2024). Xcertainty: Estimating Lengths and Uncertainty from Photogrammetric Imagery (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Xcertainty

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Xcertainty version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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