R Observatory: Metrics for fireexposuR version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fireexposuR

1.2.0Package record

Compute and Visualize Wildfire Exposure

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

98.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Air ForbesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Methods for computing and visualizing wildfire ignition exposure and directional vulnerability that are published in a series of scientific publications are automated by the functions in this package. See Beverly et al. (2010) doi:10.1071/WF09071, Beverly et al. (2021) doi:10.1007/s10980-020-01173-8, and Beverly and Forbes (2023) doi:10.1007/s11069-023-05885-3 for background and methodology.

Changes in 1.2.0

Improvement of documentation and vignettes
use of fire_exp_adjust() has been deprecated. The functionality has been added

to fire_exp() instead.

fire_exp() now takes a numeric value for the transmission distance (t_dist).
parameter tdist will still work, but return a message to update code
use of fire_exp_map_cont() and fire_exp_map_class() have been deprecated.

The functionality of these has been merged into a new function: fire_exp_map()

split fire_exp_extract_vis() into two separate functions:

fire_exp_extract_summary(), fire_exp_dir_map() to be consistent with other

function naming and expected outputs in the package

split fire_exp_dir_multi() into two separate functions:

fire_exp_dir_multi() and fire_exp_dir_multi_plot() to be consistent with

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other function naming and expected outputs in the package

example data is now for a real location, allowing for more interpretation of

results in the vignettes

maps are now built with tmap library to improve basemaps and components

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fireexposuR", 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("ropensci/fireexposuR")

Development version from ropensci/fireexposuR. 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-fireexposur

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-fireexposuR

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-12

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 891 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%16 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 32%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,416 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30830 days

76990 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on107 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/fireexposur ↗Organization: ropensci

15Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

219Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 219 commits · Last activity 2025-11-03 · +7.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 45
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 72026-10-21 · 15

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/ropensci/fireexposur on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-02-24

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fireexposuR adds 113 packages (60 with compiled code, 124 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (14)

dplyr geosphere ggplot2 ggspatial magrittr maptiles MultiscaleDTM rlang sf terra tidyr tidyselect tidyterra tmap

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Air Forbes

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2025)

Jennifer Beverly

Thesis advisor

Releases (2)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-10-01
1.2.0Latest
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2025-10-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fire_exp_dir_multi_plot, fire_exp_extract_map, fire_exp_extract_summary, fire_exp_map
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-04
errors were not corrected in time
1.1.0
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2025-05-27
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-27
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 3.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("fireexposuR")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fireexposuR version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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