R Observatory: Metrics for leastcostpath version 2.0.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

leastcostpath

2.0.13Package record

Modelling Pathways and Movement Potential Within a Landscape

2packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joseph LewisCRAN page ↗

Calculates cost surfaces based on slope to be used when modelling pathways and movement potential within a landscape (Lewis, 2021) doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09522-w.

Changes in 2.0.13

Fixed bad parts in URL field of DESCRIPTION file for CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("leastcostpath", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-leastcostpath

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-leastcostpath

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-leastcostpath

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.13

READMEYes · 386 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.13Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,135 · ~12/day · ~370/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44730 days

1.1K90 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u5 autocran89 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing leastcostpath adds 32 packages (21 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (10)

terra sf igraph foreach gstatmethodsstatsMatrix (>= 1.4-1)paralleldoParallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RRgeo evacpath

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Joseph Lewis

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.1 (2020)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.13Latest
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2025-06-10 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.12
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2023-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
apply_cost, calculate_slope, cost_matrix, create_CCP_lcps, create_banded_lcps, create_barrier_cs, create_feature_cs, create_lcp_network, create_stochastic_lcp, create_traversal_cs, create_wide_lcp, neighbours_32, neighbours_48, validate_lcp, wide_path_matrix

added 10 exports
add_global_stochasticity, buffer_validation, calculate_distance, create_accum_cost, create_cs, get_coordinates, neighbourhood, rasterise, replace_values, update_values
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-06-03
1.8.7
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2022-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
apply_cost, calculate_slope, check_locations, force_isotropy
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-15
installation issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.8.0
record
2021-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
create_distance_cs
1.7.4
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2020-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
PDI_validation, add_dem_error, create_stochastic_lcp, create_wide_lcp, crop_cs, neighbours_32, neighbours_48, wide_path_matrix
1.3.6
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2020-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cost_matrix, create_barrier_cs
1.2.3
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2020-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
create_lcp_network
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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1.2.1
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2020-03-25
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-25
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 160 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("leastcostpath")

Format

Lewis, J. (2025). leastcostpath: Modelling Pathways and Movement Potential Within a Landscape (Version 2.0.13) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.leastcostpath

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 leastcostpath version 2.0.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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