R Observatory: Metrics for primer version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

primer

1.2.1Package record

Functions and Data for the Book, a Primer of Ecology with R

0packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by M. Henry H. StevensCRAN page ↗

Provides data and functions for "A Primer of Ecology with R" by M. Henry H. Stevens (2009) doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89882-7.

Install

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

install.packages("primer", 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-primer

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-primer

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-primer

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-06-06
WARNING13 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-04-23
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMEYes · 63 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.2.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 44 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%40 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 91%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,108 · ~18/day · ~545/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62130 days

1.6K90 days

6.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74 r2u1 autocran110 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing primer adds 18 packages (8 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, deSolve 1.9 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.10deSolve ggplot2

Imports (2)

graphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

bbmle bipartite cowplot data.table diagram DiagrammeR DiagrammeRsvg igraph lavaan magrittrnlmevegan reshape2 rARPACK rsvg

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 (1)

M. Henry H. Stevens

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Maintainer since 0.1 (2008)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

M Henry H Stevens

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.1.1

M H H Stevens

no longer listed · 1.2.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-06-05
1.2.1Latest
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2026-06-05 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-28
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
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2021-01-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 33 exports
LVCompGames, MetaSim, PopSim, SIRbd, SIRd, SIRf, SIRmod, alogistic, bip_stability, cat_function, chesson, clogistic, compcol, compcolM, dlogistic, dlvcomp2, gotelli, hanski, igp, lande, levins, lvcomp2, lvcomp3, lvcompg, one_over_f, pimmlawton, plot_f, predpreyLV, predpreyRM, scheffer and 3 more
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-10-07
1.1.1
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2019-10-07 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-08-31
issues were not corrected in time
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2012-05-16 · diff ↗ ·
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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2009-06-03 · diff ↗
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
0.1
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2009-03-27
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20

Package metadata

First published: 2009-03-27
Total releases: 6 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.10
Bundled data: 88 KB / 10 files
Download size: 214 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("primer")

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

It points to 10.1007/978-0-387-89882-7.

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 primer version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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