R Observatory: Metrics for priorCON version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

priorCON

0.1.8Package record

Graph Community Detection Methods into Systematic Conservation Planning

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christos AdamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An innovative tool-set that incorporates graph community detection methods into systematic conservation planning. It is designed to enhance spatial prioritization by focusing on the protection of areas with high ecological connectivity. Unlike traditional approaches that prioritize individual planning units, 'priorCON' focuses on clusters of features that exhibit strong ecological linkages. The 'priorCON' package is built upon the 'prioritizr' package doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.prioritizr, using commercial and open-source exact algorithm solvers that ensure optimal solutions to prioritization problems.

Changes in 0.1.8

Minor changes

Replaced the deprecated add_max_utility_objective function with its new name

add_max_wtd_sum_objective, complying with prioritizr version 9.0.1 (#2).

Updated references.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("priorCON", 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("cadam00/priorCON")

Development version from cadam00/priorCON. 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-priorcon

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-priorCON

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 9.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

READMEYes · 2,056 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to priorCON

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,864 · ~8/day · ~228/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36630 days

88590 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on96 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cadam00/priorcon ↗Account: cadam00

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

112Commits

1Commit identities

biodiversityconservationgraph-theoryprioritizationrcommunity-detectionconservation-planningr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 112 commits · Last activity 2026-09-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-12 · 42026-07-07 · 5

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/cadam00/priorcon on 2026-10-22.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-26

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing priorCON adds 100 packages (53 with compiled code, 114 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, sf 9.3 MB, prioritizr 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

utilsprioritizr terra highs (>= 0.1.10)tmap sf brainGraph igraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Christos Adam

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Aggeliki Doxa

Author

Stelios Katsanevakis

Author · added in 0.1.3

Antonios D. Mazaris

Author · added in 0.1.3

Nikolaos Nagkoulis

Author

Maria Papazekou

Author · added in 0.1.3

Releases (9)

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0.1.8Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.7
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0.1.6
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2025-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
graph_connectivity_rasters
0.1.5
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2025-04-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
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0.1.3
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2024-11-28 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2024-11-06 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2024-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+, pattern:^[^\\.]

added 7 exports
basic_scenario, connectivity_scenario, get_cost_raster, get_features_raster, get_metrics, get_outputs, preprocess_graphs
0.1.0
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2024-08-19
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-08-19
Total releases: 9 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("priorCON")

Format

Adam, C., Doxa, A., Katsanevakis, S., Mazaris, A. D., Nagkoulis, N., & Papazekou, M. (2026). priorCON: Graph Community Detection Methods into Systematic Conservation Planning (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.priorCON

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for priorCON version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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