R Observatory: Metrics for dssd version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dssd

1.0.3Package record

Distance Sampling Survey Design

1packages depend

7.9Kdownloads / year

58.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Laura MarshallCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates survey designs for distance sampling surveys. These designs can be assessed for various effort and coverage statistics. Once the user is satisfied with the design characteristics they can generate a set of transects to use in their distance sampling survey. Many of the designs implemented in this R package were first made available in our 'Distance' for Windows software and are detailed in Chapter 7 of Advanced Distance Sampling, Buckland et. al. (2008, ISBN-13: 978-0199225873). Find out more about estimating animal/plant abundance with distance sampling at https://distancesampling.org/.

Changes in 1.0.3

Enhancements

Updated web site links

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dssd", 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("DistanceDevelopment/dssd")

Development version from DistanceDevelopment/dssd. 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-dssd

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-dssd

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-dssd

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: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 328 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (2)

Getting Started with dssd HTML
Multiple Strata in dssd HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,321 · ~22/day · ~658/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

66230 days

1.5K90 days

7.9K1 year

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Also on76 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

distancedevelopment/dssd ↗Organization: DistanceDevelopment

2Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

452Commits

4Commit identities

452 commits · Last activity 2025-09-16

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 29
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-01-18 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/distancedevelopment/dssd on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-16

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dssd adds 26 packages (15 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

sf ggplot2methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown tibble covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

dsims

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Laura Marshall

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Rexstad Eric

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Releases (12)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 12 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dssd")

Format

Marshall, L., & Eric, R. (2025). dssd: Distance Sampling Survey Design (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dssd

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dssd version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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