R Observatory: Metrics for moveHMM version 1.12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

moveHMM

1.12Package record

Animal Movement Modelling using Hidden Markov Models

0packages dependsuggested by 7

12.4Kdownloads / year

46.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Theo MichelotCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools for animal movement modelling using hidden Markov models. These include processing of tracking data, fitting hidden Markov models to movement data, visualization of data and fitted model, decoding of the state process, etc. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12578.

Changes in 1.12

Change arma::is_finite() to std::isfinite() after Armadillo update
Require >= 3 observations per track in prepData (to have one turning angle)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("moveHMM", 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("TheoMichelot/moveHMM")

Development version from TheoMichelot/moveHMM. 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-movehmm

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-moveHMM

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-moveHMM

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: 8.0 min · r-devel-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
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.12

READMEYes · 169 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.12Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 51 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 70%16 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

12.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,941 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

82530 days

2.3K90 days

12.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on417 r2u8 autocran137 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

theomichelot/movehmm ↗Account: TheoMichelot

44Stars

17Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

690Commits

12Commit identities

animal-movementhidden-markov-modelhmmmovement-ecologyr-package

690 commits · Last activity 2025-10-05 · Discussions: 11 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 162026-09-01 · 17

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/theomichelot/movehmm on 2026-10-18.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing moveHMM adds 47 packages (30 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, ggmap 4.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

RcppbootMASSsp geosphere ggplot2 ggmap numDeriv

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 7

Suggests, most downloaded first

amt momentuHMM segclust2d hmmTMB trackdf m2b SiMRiv

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Theo Michelot

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2015)

Roland Langrock

Author, Contributor

Toby Patterson

Author, Contributor

Brett McClintock

Contributor · added in 1.5

Eric Rexstad

Contributor

Releases (13)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.12Latest
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2025-10-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
splitAtGaps
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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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2022-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getPlotData, predictStationary, predictTPM
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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
1.6
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2018-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
plotStationary, stationary
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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2017-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-04-06 · diff ↗
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2016-06-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plotSat
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
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exGen
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2015-10-23
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-23
Total releases: 13 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 53 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.8 MB

Appears in task views

Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("moveHMM")

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

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.12578.

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 moveHMM version 1.12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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