R Observatory: Metrics for gecko version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gecko

1.0.3

Geographical Ecology and Conservation Knowledge Online

1packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Vasco V. BrancoFirst published 2022-08-197 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Includes a collection of geographical analysis functions aimed primarily at ecology and conservation science studies, allowing processing of both point and raster data. Now integrates SPECTRE (https://biodiversityresearch.org/spectre/), a dataset of global geospatial threat data, developed by the authors.

Install

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

install.packages("gecko", 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("VascoBranco/gecko")

Development version from VascoBranco/gecko. 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-gecko

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-gecko

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-gecko

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 14.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

15

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

OK2026-04-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,605 · ~12/day · ~368/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27030 days

1.1K90 days

4.4K1 year

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Also on127 r2u24 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ vascobranco/gecko

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

19Commits

1Contributors

ecologyconservation-sciencespatial-analysis

License GPL-2.0 · 19 commits · Last activity 2024-12-17

Stars over time

2024-12-19 · 52026-07-07 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vascobranco/gecko on 2026-08-23.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

terra spgrDevicesgraphicsstatsutilsgeospheremethodsred biomod2 kernlab ggplot2 sf stringr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

arete

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Vasco V. Branco

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Vasco V. Branco

Maintainer, Author

Pedro Cardoso

Author

Contributors (1)

Luís Correia

Contributor

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2025-09-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
2024-12-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0
2023-11-23 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-08-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
2022-10-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2022-08-19
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-19
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gecko")

Format

Branco, V. V., Cardoso, P., & Correia, L. (2026). gecko: Geographical Ecology and Conservation Knowledge Online (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gecko

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gecko version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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