R Observatory: Metrics for bcpa version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bcpa

1.3.2Package record

Behavioral Change Point Analysis of Animal Movement

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eliezer GurarieCRAN page ↗

The Behavioral Change Point Analysis (BCPA) is a method of identifying hidden shifts in the underlying parameters of a time series, developed specifically to be applied to animal movement data which is irregularly sampled. The method is based on: E. Gurarie, R. Andrews and K. Laidre A novel method for identifying behavioural changes in animal movement data (2009) Ecology Letters 12:5 395-408. A development version is on https://github.com/EliGurarie/bcpa. NOTE: the BCPA method may be useful for any univariate, irregularly sampled Gaussian time-series, but animal movement analysts are encouraged to apply correlated velocity change point analysis as implemented in the smoove package, as of this writing on GitHub at https://github.com/EliGurarie/smoove. An example of a univariate analysis is provided in the UnivariateBCPA vignette.

Install

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

install.packages("bcpa", 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-bcpa

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-bcpa

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-bcpa

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-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, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) WindowSweep.Rd:32: Lost braces
    32 | `code{\link{GetVT}}`.   Otherwise, any column (e.g. \code{"Depth"}) in the 
       |      ^
checkRd: (-1) WindowSweep.Rd:36: Lost braces
    36 | \code{T.mid}  from the output of the `code{\link{GetVT}}`.}
       |                                           ^

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

Maintainer: ‘Eliezer Gurarie <egurarie@esf.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Eliezer",
                    family = "Gurarie",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "egurarie@esf.edu")
as necessary.

Found the following (possibly) invalid file URI:
  URI: eliezg@u.washington.edu
    From: inst/doc/bcpa.pdf

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘GetL.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

READMEYes · 225 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,152 · ~17/day · ~532/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47530 days

1.3K90 days

6.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on394 r2u22 autocran159 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bcpa adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, plyr 392 KB.

Depends (1)

plyr

Imports (2)

statsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

knitr lubridate magrittr circular digest rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Eliezer Gurarie

Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-26
Total releases: 3 / 13 yrs
License: Unlimited
Bundled data: 3.9 KB / 1 file
Download size: 497 KB

Appears in task views

Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

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citation("bcpa")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bcpa version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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