R Observatory: Metrics for potential version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

potential

0.3.0Package record

Implementation of the Potential Model

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

67.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Timothée GiraudCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to compute the potential model as defined by Stewart (1941) doi:10.1126/science.93.2404.89. Several options are available to customize the model, such as the possibility to fine-tune the distance friction functions or to use custom distance matrices. Some computations are parallelized to improve their efficiency.

Changes in 0.3.0

fix

add check on data input
correct URLs
use mapsf current mapsf functions
simplify examples

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("potential", 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("riatelab/potential")

Development version from riatelab/potential. 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-potential

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-potential

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-potential

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: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-06

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ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-04
OK13 OK2026-04-28
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-24
OK14 OK2026-04-20
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 141 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (1)

potential HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,009 · ~8/day · ~248/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31830 days

84490 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

riatelab/potential ↗Organization: riatelab

30Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

83Commits

2Commit identities

stewartrspatial

83 commits · Last activity 2026-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-05 · 292026-07-07 · 30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/riatelab/potential 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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-23

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing potential adds 17 packages (11 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

sfgraphicsmapisoparalleldoParallel foreach

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr eurostat giscoR mapsf knitr tinytest 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)

Timothée Giraud

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020), Author

Hadrien Commenges

Author

Releases (3)

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0.3.0Latest
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2026-07-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.0
record
2022-07-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
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2020-11-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-18
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 101 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("potential")

Format

Giraud, T., & Commenges, H. (2026). potential: Implementation of the Potential Model (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.potential

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 potential version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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