R Observatory: Metrics for prioritizr version 8.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prioritizr

8.1.0

Systematic Conservation Prioritization in R

5packages depend

21.7Kdownloads / year

87.4%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard SchusterFirst published 2016-12-0124 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Systematic conservation prioritization using mixed integer linear programming (MILP). It provides a flexible interface for building and solving conservation planning problems. Once built, conservation planning problems can be solved using a variety of commercial and open-source exact algorithm solvers. By using exact algorithm solvers, solutions can be generated that are guaranteed to be optimal (or within a pre-specified optimality gap). Furthermore, conservation problems can be constructed to optimize the spatial allocation of different management actions or zones, meaning that conservation practitioners can identify solutions that benefit multiple stakeholders. To solve large-scale or complex conservation planning problems, users should install the Gurobi optimization software (available from https://www.gurobi.com/) and the 'gurobi' R package (see Gurobi Installation Guide vignette for details). Users can also install the IBM CPLEX software (https://www.ibm.com/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio/cplex-optimizer) and the 'cplexAPI' R package (available at https://github.com/cran/cplexAPI). Additionally, the 'rcbc' R package (available at https://github.com/dirkschumacher/rcbc) can be used to generate solutions using the CBC optimization software (https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc). For further details, see Hanson et al. (2025) doi:10.1111/cobi.14376.

Install

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

install.packages("prioritizr", 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("prioritizr/prioritizr")

Development version from prioritizr/prioritizr. 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-prioritizr

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-prioritizr

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-prioritizr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
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NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 21.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.09

87.4%

Coverage · measured lines

96%

Documentation · exports

18

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,195 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 11%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 37%

Downloads

21.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,458 · ~59/day · ~1.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ prioritizr/prioritizr

137Stars

27Forks

14Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

845Commits

10Contributors

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845 commits · Last activity 2026-06-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/prioritizr/prioritizr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

utilsmethodsparallelR6 rlang cli sf units terra (>= 1.8-54)rasterMatrixassertthat (>= 0.2.0)igraph ape magrittr exactextractr tibble withr

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo BH (>= 1.75.0-0)

Suggests (13)

testthat knitr gurobi rcbc cplexAPI lpsymphony slam Rsymphony highs rmarkdown prioritizrdata fields (>= 14.0)vroom

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

MultiscaleSCP prior3D priorCON robust.prioritizr multiscape

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Schuster

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.1

Authors (9)

Richard Schuster

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.0.1

Peter Arcese

Author · added in 3.0.1

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 3.0.1

Hugh P Possingham

Author

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author

Matthew E Watts

Author

Listed in earlier versions (7)

Joeseph Bennett

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 4.1.1

Matthew E

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 8.1.0

Jeffrey O

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 8.1.0

Hugh P

no longer listed · 3.0.1 to 8.1.0

Joseph Bennett

no longer listed · 4.1.3 to 8.0.3

Brandon P

no longer listed · 7.1.1 to 8.1.0

Joseph R

no longer listed · 8.0.4 to 8.1.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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requested by the maintainer, 'Matthew Strimas-Mackey <mstrimas@gmail.com>'
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-01
Total releases: 24 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Schuster, R., Arcese, P., Bennett, J. R., Edwards, B. P. M., Hanson, J. O., Morrell, N., Possingham, H. P., Strimas-Mackey, M., & Watts, M. E. (2025). prioritizr: Systematic Conservation Prioritization in R (Version 8.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.prioritizr

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