R Observatory: Metrics for primer version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

primer

1.2.1

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

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by M. Henry H. StevensFirst published 2009-03-276 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-06
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-04-23
0 OK · 13 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 63 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 85%
References docs: 91%

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,260 · ~20/day · ~605/mo

Releases R versions

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25530 days

1.2K90 days

7.3K1 year

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Also on99 r2u18 autocran65 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

M. Henry H. Stevens

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Authors (1)

M. Henry H. Stevens

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

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

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.1Latest
2026-06-05 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-06-05
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-28
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
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
2021-01-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.1
2019-10-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-10-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-08-31
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Show 16 earlier events

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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
1.0
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
0.2
2009-06-03 · diff ↗
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
0.1
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("primer")

Format

Stevens, M. H. H. (2026). primer: Functions and Data for the Book, a Primer of Ecology with R (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.primer

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for primer version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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