R Observatory: Metrics for m2b version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

m2b

1.1.0Package record

Movement to Behaviour Inference using Random Forest

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Laurent DubrocaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Prediction of behaviour from movement characteristics using observation and random forest for the analyses of movement data in ecology. From movement information (speed, bearing...) the model predicts the observed behaviour (movement, foraging...) using random forest. The model can then extrapolate behavioural information to movement data without direct observation of behaviours. The specificity of this method relies on the derivation of multiple predictor variables from the movement data over a range of temporal windows. This procedure allows to capture as much information as possible on the changes and variations of movement and ensures the use of the random forest algorithm to its best capacity. The method is very generic, applicable to any set of data providing movement data together with observation of behaviour.

Install

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

install.packages("m2b", 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("ldbk/m2b")

Development version from ldbk/m2b. 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-m2b

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-m2b

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-m2b

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: 2.4 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
OK13 OK2026-05-02

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 312 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 70%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

m2b tutorial HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,675 · ~10/day · ~313/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

84390 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u9 autocran108 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ldbk/m2b ↗Account: ldbk

2Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

22Commits

2Commit identities

22 commits · Last activity 2025-06-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2022-04-27 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ldbk/m2b on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing m2b adds 67 packages (38 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (8)

geosphere caTools ggplot2 randomForest caretmethodsgraphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

adehabitatLT moveHMM knitr DiagrammeR rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Laurent Dubroca

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2017)

Andréa Thiebault

Author

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-06-25
1.1.0Latest
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2025-06-25 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-06-13
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0
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2017-05-04
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-04
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 44 KB / 1 file
Download size: 407 KB

Appears in task views

Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("m2b")

Format

Dubroca, L., & Thiebault, A. (2025). m2b: Movement to Behaviour Inference using Random Forest (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.m2b

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for m2b version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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