R Observatory: Metrics for archiDART version 3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

archiDART

3.4Package record

Plant Root System Architecture Analysis Using DART and RSML Files

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin M DeloryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Analysis of complex plant root system architectures (RSA) using the output files created by Data Analysis of Root Tracings (DART), an open-access software dedicated to the study of plant root architecture and development across time series (Le Bot et al (2010) "DART: a software to analyse root system architecture and development from captured images", Plant and Soil, DOI:10.1007/s11104-009-0005-2), and RSA data encoded with the Root System Markup Language (RSML) (Lobet et al (2015) "Root System Markup Language: toward a unified root architecture description language", Plant Physiology, DOI:10.1104/pp.114.253625). More information can be found in Delory et al (2016) "archiDART: an R package for the automated computation of plant root architectural traits", Plant and Soil, DOI:10.1007/s11104-015-2673-4.

Install

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

install.packages("archiDART", 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("archiDART/archidart")

Development version from archiDART/archidart. 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-archidart

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-archiDART

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-archiDART

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Benjamin M Delory <Benjamin.Delory@leuphana.de>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Benjamin", "M"),
                      family = "Delory",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "benjamin.delory@leuphana.de"),
               person(given = "Caroline",
                      family = "Baudson",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Yves",
                      family = "Brostaux",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Guillaume",
                      family = "Lobet",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Patrick", "du"),
                      family = "Jardin",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Loic",
                      family = "Pages",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Pierre",
                      family = "Delaplace",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,948 · ~11/day · ~331/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38330 days

1.1K90 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on96 r2u33 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

archidart/archidart ↗Organization: archidart

3Stars

4Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

58Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 58 commits · Last activity 2021-01-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2020-10-30 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/archidart/archidart on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing archiDART adds 10 packages (6 with compiled code, 9.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, geometry 1.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

statsutilsgraphicsgtoolsgrDevicesXML geometry sp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

rgl TDA

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (7)

· added in 1.2

Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Releases (10)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-02-11 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-09
requires archived package 'TDA'
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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added 1 export
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added 4 exports
bottleneckdist, dartToTable, perhomology, rsmlToTable
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2017-05-11 · diff ↗

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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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Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-05
Total releases: 10 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Additional repositories: archidart.github.io
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("archiDART")

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

It points to 10.1007/s11104-015-2673-4.

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 archiDART version 3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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