R Observatory: Metrics for bSims version 0.3-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bSims

0.3-3Package record

Agent-Based Bird Point Count Simulator

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

72.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter SolymosCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A highly scientific and utterly addictive bird point count simulator to test statistical assumptions, aid survey design, and have fun while doing it (Solymos 2024 doi:10.1007/s42977-023-00183-2). The simulations follow time-removal and distance sampling models based on Matsuoka et al. (2012) doi:10.1525/auk.2012.11190, Solymos et al. (2013) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12106, and Solymos et al. (2018) doi:10.1650/CONDOR-18-32.1, and sound attenuation experiments by Yip et al. (2017) doi:10.1650/CONDOR-16-93.1.

Changes in 0.3-3

Use Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bSims", 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("psolymos/bSims")

Development version from psolymos/bSims. 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-bsims

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-bSims

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-bSims

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: 3.3 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

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3-3Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,448 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34830 days

93890 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

psolymos/bsims ↗Account: psolymos

4Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

356Commits

2Commit identities

simulationbirdsdetectabilitybiassurvey-designshiny

356 commits · Last activity 2026-04-25 · Default branch at 0.3-4, ahead of CRAN 0.3-3 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-06-26 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psolymos/bsims on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bSims adds 5 packages (1 with compiled code, 467 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mefa4 316 KB, deldir 101 KB, pbapply 23 KB.

Depends (4)

intrval mefa4MASSdeldir

Imports (2)

parallelpbapply

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown detect shiny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Peter Solymos

Author, Maintainer since 0.2-1 (2019)

Releases (4)

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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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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

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-20
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bSims")

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

It points to 10.1007/s42977-023-00183-2.

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 bSims version 0.3-3 [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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