R Observatory: Metrics for popbio version 2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

popbio

2.8Package record

Construction and Analysis of Matrix Population Models

2packages dependsuggested by 4

23Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris StubbenCRAN page ↗

Construct and analyze projection matrix models from a demography study of marked individuals classified by age or stage. The package covers methods described in Matrix Population Models by Caswell (2001) and Quantitative Conservation Biology by Morris and Doak (2002).

Install

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

install.packages("popbio", 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-popbio

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-popbio

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-popbio

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Chris Stubben <chris.stubben@hci.utah.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Chris",
                      family = "Stubben",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "chris.stubben@hci.utah.edu"),
               person(given = "Brook",
                      family = "Milligan",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Patrick",
                      family = "Nantel",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8

READMEYes · 56 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 60
Examples that run: 98%56 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 70%

Also includes 3 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

23K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,277 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

3.5K90 days

23K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on126 r2u11 autocran139 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing popbio adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

quadprog

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mpmsim SharkDemography

Suggests, most downloaded first

lefko3 NeStage raretrans logihist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Chris Stubben

Brook Milligan

Patrick Nantel

· added in 1.1

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2007)

Releases (23)

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-02-16
Total releases: 23 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 36 KB / 14 files
Download size: 124 KB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("popbio")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v022.i11.

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 popbio version 2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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