R Observatory: Metrics for medfate version 5.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

medfate

5.1.0Package record

Mediterranean Forest Simulation

1packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

66.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Miquel De CáceresCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simulate Mediterranean forest functioning and dynamics using cohort-based description of vegetation [De Caceres et al. (2015) doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012; De Caceres et al. (2021) doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108233].

Install

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

install.packages("medfate", 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("emf-creaf/medfate")

Development version from emf-creaf/medfate. 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-medfate

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-medfate

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-medfate

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: 26.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-04
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-05-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 5.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 85 (42 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%46 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 49%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,799 · ~16/day · ~483/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

77030 days

1.7K90 days

5.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on420 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

emf-creaf/medfate ↗Organization: emf-creaf

14Stars

8Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

2,759Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 2,759 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 5.2.0, ahead of CRAN 5.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 35
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 132026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/emf-creaf/medfate 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 (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-16

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-16

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing medfate adds 74 packages (43 with compiled code, 81 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

ggplot2 meteolandmethodsRcpp (>= 1.0.6)RcppParallel shiny units

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel meteoland

Suggests (4)

testthat rlang knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · LinkingTo 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

medfateland

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (14)

Miquel De Cáceres

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.3

Antoine Cabon

Author · added in 0.7.3

Arsène Druel

Author · added in 4.8.1

Víctor Granda

Author · added in 0.7.3

Nicolas Martin-StPaul

Author · added in 1.0.0

Julien Ruffault

Author · added in 3.1.3

Aitor Améztegui

Contributor · added in 2.7.3

Hervé Cochard

Contributor · added in 3.1.3

Shengli Huang

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Jordi Martínez-Vilalta

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Maurizio Mencuccini

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

François Pimont

Contributor · added in 3.1.3

Léa Veuillen

Contributor · added in 4.7.0

John Burkardt

Copyright holder · added in 2.9.3

Copyright holder of C++ code in 'incgamma.cpp'

Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2016)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Miquel De Caceres

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.2.2

Releases (27)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-09
Total releases: 27 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | LGPL (>= 3) OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 2.9.3
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 86 KB / 8 files
Download size: 900 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("medfate")

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

It points to 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012, 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108233, 10.5194/gmd-15-5593-2022, 10.5194/gmd-16-3165-2023.

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 medfate version 5.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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