R Observatory: Metrics for gecko version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gecko

1.0.3Package record

Geographical Ecology and Conservation Knowledge Online

1packages depend

4.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vasco V. BrancoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 15.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 27
Examples that run: 60%15 run in a plain check · 10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 11%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,430 · ~13/day · ~389/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45530 days

1.1K90 days

4.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

vascobranco/gecko ↗Account: VascoBranco

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

19Commits

1Commit identities

ecologyconservation-sciencespatial-analysis

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 19 commits · Last activity 2024-12-17 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-12-19 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/vascobranco/gecko on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gecko adds 134 packages (74 with compiled code, 113 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

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

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

arete

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Vasco V. Branco

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022), Author

Pedro Cardoso

Author

Luís Correia

Contributor

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
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2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2025-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
gecko.worldclim.load, outliers.detect.mass
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
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2024-12-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0
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2023-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
gecko.examples, outliers

added 16 exports
confusion.matrix, gecko.data, gecko.getDir, gecko.setDir, gecko.worldclim, normalize, outliers.detect, outliers.visualize, performance.metrics, spectre.area, spectre.citations, spectre.points, spectre.template, spectrify, splitDataset, stats
0.1.2
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2023-08-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gecko.examples
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
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2022-10-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
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

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

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

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 gecko version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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