R Observatory: Metrics for ZeBook version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ZeBook

1.2Package record

Working with Dynamic Models for Agriculture and Environment

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Francois BrunCRAN page ↗

R package accompanying the book Working with dynamic models for agriculture and environment, by Daniel Wallach (INRAE), David Makowski (INRAE), James W. Jones (U.of Florida), Francois Brun (ACTA), 2019.

Install

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

install.packages("ZeBook", 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-zebook

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-ZeBook

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-ZeBook

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:
  ZeBook/R/carcass.EMI.model.r (.Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK6 OK2026-06-23
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 86
Examples that run: 92%24 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 99%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Also includes 34 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,926 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56230 days

1.4K90 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on132 r2u2 autocran96 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ZeBook adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 2.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: deSolve 1.9 MB, triangle 80 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (2)

triangle deSolve

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

coda dlm mapsmgcvmnormt mvtnorm randomForestrpartrpart.plot sensitivity spspatialtseries

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Francois Brun

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2012)

ACTA

James W. Jones

Author · added in 1.2

U.of Florida

David Makowski

Author

INRAE

Daniel Wallach

Author

INRAE

Listed in earlier versions (1)

James W. Jones .

no longer listed · 0.3 to 1.1

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-06-22
1.2Latest
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first seen 2026-06-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-25
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1
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2018-11-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0
record
2018-03-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
lactation.model.machine, lactation.model.machine2

added 12 exports
carrot.weevil.model, graph_epid, graph_epid_s, lactation.machine.model, lactation.machine.model2, maize.muchow.graph, maize.muchow.model, mm.A.fct, mm.FAS.fct, mm.HI.fct, mm.LN.fct, zakoks.original.model
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.5
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2013-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
epirice.multi.simul

added 25 exports
carbonsoil.model, carbonsoil.update, carcass.define.param, carcass.EMI.model, carcass.EMI.model2, carcass.EMI.multi, carcass.EMI.simule, carcass.model, cotton.model, epirice.multi.simule, exponential.model, exponential.model.bis, exponential.model.ie, lactation.calf.model, lactation.calf.model2, lactation.calf.simule, lactation.define.param, lactation.model.machine, lactation.model.machine2, population.age.matrix.model, population.age.model, population.age.model.ode, predator.prey.model, seedweight.model, watbal.model.arid
0.4
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2013-04-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
AICf, goodness.of.fit, maize.multisy, maize.multisy240, maize.simule_multisy240, maize.simule240, threshold.measures
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.3
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2013-02-13
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-13
Total releases: 6 / 13 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 4.1 MB / 14 files
Download size: 3.7 MB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("ZeBook")

Format

Brun, F., Jones, J. W., Makowski, D., & Wallach, D. (2026). ZeBook: Working with Dynamic Models for Agriculture and Environment (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ZeBook

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ZeBook version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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