R Observatory: Metrics for multiscape version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

multiscape

1.4.2Package record

Multi-Action, Multi-Objective Spatial Planning

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by José Salgado-RojasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a modular framework for exact multi-objective spatial planning using mixed-integer programming. The package supports the definition of planning problems through planning units, features, management actions, action effects, spatial relations, targets, constraints, and objective functions. It enables the optimisation of spatial planning portfolios under considerations such as boundary structure, connectivity, and fragmentation. Supported multi-objective methods include weighted-sum aggregation, epsilon-constraint, and the augmented epsilon-constraint method. Problems can be solved with several commercial and open-source optimisation solvers. Optional solver backends include the 'gurobi' R package, which is distributed with the Gurobi Optimizer installation https://docs.gurobi.com/projects/optimizer/en/13.0/reference/r/setup.html, and the 'rcbc' R package, available from GitHub at https://github.com/dirkschumacher/rcbc. For background on multi-objective optimisation methods, see Halffmann et al. (2022) doi:10.1002/mcda.1780; for the augmented epsilon-constraint method, see Mavrotas (2009) doi:10.1016/j.amc.2009.03.037.

Changes in 1.4.2

Speed up selection_frequency() without changing recurrence counts, and use pre-rendered maps in the large forest-restoration vignette to reduce package build and check times.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("multiscape", 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("josesalgr/multiscape")

Development version from josesalgr/multiscape. 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-multiscape

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-multiscape

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-multiscape

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: 20.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-04-29

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.2

READMEYes · 2,378 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 97 (7 internal)
Examples that run: 100%72 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,159 · ~7/day · ~199/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44330 days

1.1K90 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

josesalgr/multiscape ↗Account: josesalgr

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

220Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 220 commits · Last activity 2026-10-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.3, ahead of CRAN 1.4.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-02-08 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/josesalgr/multiscape 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 2026-10-21

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

39 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing multiscape adds 48 packages (30 with compiled code, 59 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

assertthatMatrixproto magrittr dplyr Rcpp cli sfmethodsRANN exactextractr ggplot2 terra ggrepel lifecycle moocore

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo BH

Suggests (22)

roxygen2 prioritizr Rsymphony Rcplex slam rlang testthat withr raster tmap sp viridis markdown data.table purrr readr tibble reshape2 rcbc gurobi knitr 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 (5)

José Salgado-Rojas

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.6 (2026)

Núria Aquilué

Author

Victoria Madrid-Ayala

Author · added in 1.4.2

Matías Moreno-Faguett

Author

Sara Pineda-Zapata

Author · added in 1.4.2

Releases (3)

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1.4.2Latest
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2026-10-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
Solution, get_solution_vector, plot_spatial

added 38 exports
add_action_sets, add_constraint_action_cardinality, add_constraint_action_excludes, add_constraint_action_requires, add_constraint_action_together, add_constraint_locked_planning_units, add_objective_max_effect, add_objective_min_effect, add_objective_min_fragmentation_planning_units, frontier_distances, frontier_extremes, frontier_knee, frontier_neighbors, get_action_sets, get_objectives, get_planning_units, get_runs, get_solution_states, linkage_contrasts, linkage_distances, linkage_transition, linkage_turnover, load_ecosystem_services, load_meseta, load_sim_multiaction, mo_control, plot_spatial_planning_units, run_grid, run_manual, selection_consistency and 8 more
1.0.7
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2026-04-30 · diff ↗
1.0.6
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first seen 2026-04-28
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-04-28
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 285 KB / 5 files
Download size: 8.5 MB

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citation("multiscape")

Format

Salgado-Rojas, J., Aquilué, N., Madrid-Ayala, V., Moreno-Faguett, M., & Pineda-Zapata, S. (2026). multiscape: Multi-Action, Multi-Objective Spatial Planning (Version 1.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.multiscape

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for multiscape version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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