R Observatory: Metrics for ecotrends version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ecotrends needs insight (through modEvA → effectsize), which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 14.

ecotrends

1.2Package record

Temporal Trends in Ecological Niche Models

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by A. Marcia BarbosaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Computes temporal trends in environmental suitability obtained from ecological niche models, based on a set of species presence point coordinates and predictor variables.

Changes in 1.2

DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE
removed dependency on the {collinear} package, as its updates were often not backward-compatible and introduced breaking changes
getModels()
collinearity is now reduced with fuzzySim::corSelect() and fuzzySim::multicol(), instead of collinear::collinear()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ecotrends", 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("AMBarbosa/ecotrends")

Development version from AMBarbosa/ecotrends. 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-ecotrends

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-ecotrends

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-ecotrends

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: 4.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 1.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 25%2 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 56%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,053 · ~17/day · ~510/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33730 days

1K90 days

6.1K1 year

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Also on98 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ambarbosa/ecotrends ↗Account: AMBarbosa

16Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

119Commits

1Commit identities

119 commits · Last activity 2026-02-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.1, ahead of CRAN 1.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-02-02 · 122026-09-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

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

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ecotrends adds 20 packages (8 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB, performance 1.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (5)

fuzzySim maxnet modEvA terra (>= 1.4-19)trend

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

insight through modEvA → effectsizefix by Nov 14

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

A. Marcia Barbosa

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2025)

João Alírio

Author

Salvador Arenas-Castro

Author

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Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Barbosa

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Duarte

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Teodoro

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-05
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ecotrends")

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

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 ecotrends version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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