R Observatory: Metrics for birdscanR version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

birdscanR

0.3.0

Migration Traffic Rate Calculation Package for 'Birdscan MR1' Radars

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2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Birgen HaestFirst published 2023-02-173 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extract data from 'Birdscan MR1' 'SQL' vertical-looking radar databases, filter, and process them to Migration Traffic Rates (#objects per hour and km) or density (#objects per km3) of, for example birds, and insects. Object classifications in the 'Birdscan MR1' databases are based on the dataset of Haest et al. (2021) doi:10.5281/zenodo.5734960). Migration Traffic Rates and densities can be calculated separately for different height bins (with a height resolution of choice) as well as over time periods of choice (e.g., 1/2 hour, 1 hour, 1 day, day/night, the full time period of observation, and anything in between). Two plotting functions are also included to explore the data in the 'SQL' databases and the resulting Migration Traffic Rate results. For details on the Migration Traffic Rate calculation procedures, see Schmid et al. (2019) doi:10.1111/ecog.04025.

Install

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

install.packages("birdscanR", 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("BirdScanCommunity/birdscanR")

Development version from BirdScanCommunity/birdscanR. 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-birdscanr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-birdscanR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

18

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-09
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 7%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,322 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ birdscancommunity/birdscanr

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20Open issues

4Open PRs

3Releases

530Commits

8Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 530 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/birdscancommunity/birdscanr on 2026-08-16.

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cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

DBI dplyr ggplot2grDevicesmagrittr suntoolsmethodsmodi reshape2 RODBC RPostgreSQL rlang rstudioapi spstatstibble tidyrutils

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none

Suggests (1)

knitr

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People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Birgen Haest

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Birgen Haest

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Fabian Hertner

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-17
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.5 KB / 2 files
Download size: 502 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Haest, B., De Groeve, J., Hertner, F., Liechti, F., Preatoni, D., & Schmid, B. (2024). birdscanR: Migration Traffic Rate Calculation Package for 'Birdscan MR1' Radars (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.birdscanR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for birdscanR version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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