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r4ss

1.44.1Package record

Compatibility Notice for Stock Synthesis Tools

1packages dependsuggested by 1
7.7Kdownloads / year
28.6%test coverage
9/13flavors OK

Overview

About
Maintained by Ian G. TaylorCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a compatibility notice for users of the 'r4ss' Stock Synthesis tools. Active development and current releases are available from GitHub https://github.com/r4ss/r4ss. This package supplies the canonical repository location and migration guidance.

Changes in 1.44.1
  • Replace the out-of-date CRAN implementation with a compatibility package that directs users to current releases on GitHub.
  • Remove the implementation and all third-party runtime dependencies from the CRAN package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

Health

CRAN checks
4NOTE9OK
Check messages
NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64
checkRd: (-1) r4ss-package.Rd:9: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
     9 | A collection of R functions for use with Stock Synthesis, a fisheries stock assessment modeling platform written in ADMB by Dr. Richard D. Methot at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center. The functions include tools for summarizing and plotting results, manipulating files, visualizing model parameterizations, and various other common stock assessment tasks. This version of '{r4ss}' is compatible with Stock Synthesis versions 3.24 through 3.30 (specifically version 3.30.19.01, from April 2022).
       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ^
NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
Maintainer: ‘Ian G. Taylor <Ian.Taylor@noaa.gov>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
Status changes
  • NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
  • NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
  • WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
  • NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.44.1
READMEYes · 49 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.44.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
2 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
not tracked
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%
How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #4,525 · ~21/day · ~643/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
82230 days
1.8K90 days
7.7K1 year
Compare downloads with other packages →
Also on85 r2u15 autocran
How downloads are counted

Repository

r4ss/r4ss ↗Organization: r4ss
48Stars
40Forks
142Open issues
4Open PRs
17Releases
4,180Commits
69Commit identities
stock-synthesisfisheriesfisheries-stock-assessmentrrstats
4,180 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · 0% stars, 30d
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
0

Stars over time

2025-07-10 · 452026-09-01 · 48
How these are measured
PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r4ss/r4ss on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Governance and community (1)
Issue templates
Docs source (2)
pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-23

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-23, before release 1.44.1 (2026-10-16)

Coverage (2)
Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore
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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)
Dev Container
CRAN release process (2)
cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION
Automation and maintenance (1)
Dependabot
Git structural (1)
.gitattributes
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)
AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

  • GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-20
    Pull request: opened by its own account
    Commits: 2 by its own account · at least 2 crediting it in the message
Review tools
  • Copilot code review
    Commits: at least 8 accepting its review suggestions
Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing r4ss adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)
R >= 3.5.0
Imports (0)
none
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Dependency license breakdown →
Reverse dependencies
1direct
0indirect
Imports 1
Suggested by 1
Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first
ss3sim
Suggests, most downloaded first
MSEtool
How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (39)
Ian G. Taylor
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.24.0
Z. Teresa A'mar
Author · added in 1.24.0
Sean C. Anderson
Author · added in 1.24.0
Andrew B. Cooper
Author · added in 1.36.1
LaTreese S. Denson
Author · added in 1.44.0
Kathryn L. Doering
Author · added in 1.44.0
Robbie L. Emmet
Author · added in 1.24.0
Eric Fletcher
Author · added in 1.44.0
R.I.C. Chris Francis
Author · added in 1.44.1
Tommy M. Garrison
Author · added in 1.24.0
Andrea M. Havron
Author · added in 1.36.1
Allan C. Hicks
Author · added in 1.24.0
Watal M. Iwasaki
Author · added in 1.36.1
Kelli F. Johnson
Author · added in 1.24.0
Neil L. Klaer
Author · added in 1.36.1
Peter Kuriyama
Author · added in 1.44.1
Gwladys I. Lambert
Author · added in 1.36.1
Arni Magnusson
Author · added in 1.44.1
Carey R. McGilliard
Author · added in 1.36.1
Cole C. Monnahan
Author · added in 1.24.0
Iago Mosqueira
Author · added in 1.36.1
Ashleigh J. Novak
Author · added in 1.44.0
Kiva L. Oken
Author · added in 1.44.1
Kotaro Ono
Author · added in 1.24.0
Megumi Oshima
Author · added in 1.44.0
Elizabeth Perl
Author · added in 1.44.1
Andre E. Punt
Author · added in 1.24.0
Lee Qi
Author · added in 1.44.0
Megan M. Stachura
Author · added in 1.36.1
Christine C. Stawitz
Author · added in 1.24.0
Andi Stephens
Author · added in 1.36.1
Ian J. Stewart
Author · added in 1.24.0
Yukio Takeuchi
Author · added in 1.22
James T. Thorson
Author · added in 1.24.0
Nathan R. Vaughan
Author · added in 1.44.1
John R. Wallace
Author · added in 1.24.0
Chantel R. Wetzel
Author · added in 1.24.0
Athol R. Whitten
Author · added in 1.24.0
Henning Winker
Author · added in 1.44.0

Maintainer since 1.0 (2009)

Listed in earlier versions (13)
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Tommy Garrison
no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22.1
Andre Punt
no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22.1
Ian Stewart
no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22.1
Ian Taylor
no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22.1
other contributors
no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.22
John Wallace
no longer listed · 1.01 to 1.22.1
Allan Hicks
no longer listed · 2.12.2 to 1.22.1
Chantel Wetzel
no longer listed · 2.12.2 to 1.22.1
Releases (35)

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    2026-10-16 · diff ↗ ·
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    DoProjectPlots, NegLogInt_Fn, PinerPlot, SSMethod.Cond.TA1.8, SSMethod.TA1.8, SS_ForeCatch, SS_RunJitter, SS_Sensi_plot, SS_changepars, SS_decision_table_stuff, SS_doRetro, SS_fitbiasramp, SS_html, SS_makeHTMLdiagnostictable, SS_output, SS_parlines, SS_plots, SS_profile, SS_read, SS_read_summary, SS_readctl, SS_readctl_3.24, SS_readctl_3.30, SS_readdat, SS_readdat_2.00, SS_readdat_3.00, SS_readdat_3.24, SS_readdat_3.30, SS_readforecast, SS_readpar_3.24 and 78 more
    added 1 export
    r4ss_repository
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    14 hours in CRAN's queue
    Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-15 17:32 to 2026-10-16 07:45 UTC, in 5 readings.
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    SS_Sensi_plot, SS_decision_table_stuff, SS_read, SS_readpar_3.24, SS_readpar_3.30, SS_write, SS_writepar_3.24, SS_writepar_3.30, SSdiagsTime2Year, SSplotDynamicB0, add_legend, copy_SS_inputs, get_SIS_info, is.wholenumber, populate_multiple_folders, run_SS_models, save_png, sspar, write_fwf4
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    2019-10-18 · diff ↗ ·
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    SS_makeHTMLdiagnostictable, SS_read_summary, SS_readctl_3.24, SS_readctl_3.30, SS_readdat_2.00, SS_readdat_3.00, SS_readdat_3.24, SS_readdat_3.30, SS_readwtatage, SS_tune_comps, SS_writectl_3.24, SS_writectl_3.30, SS_writedat_3.24, SS_writedat_3.30, SS_writewtatage, SSbiologytables, SSexecutivesummary, SSmohnsrho, SSplotAgeMatrix, SSplotCohortCatch, SSplotSexRatio, SStimeseries, SSunavailableSpawningOutput, make_multifig_sexratio, selShapes
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    SSMethod.Cond.TA1.8, SSMethod.TA1.8, SS_ForeCatch, SS_varadjust, SSplotRetroRecruits, getADMBHessian
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    2014-07-12 · diff ↗ ·
    added 69 exports
    DoProjectPlots, IOTCmove, NegLogInt_Fn, PinerPlot, SS_RunJitter, SS_changepars, SS_doRetro, SS_fitbiasramp, SS_html, SS_makedatlist, SS_output, SS_parlines, SS_plots, SS_profile, SS_readctl, SS_readdat, SS_readforecast, SS_readstarter, SS_recdevs, SS_splitdat, SS_write_length.fit, SS_writectl, SS_writedat, SS_writeforecast, SS_writestarter, SSbootstrap, SSgetMCMC, SSgetoutput, SSmakeMmatrix, SSplotBiology and 39 more
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Package metadata

First published
2009-11-10
Total releases
35 / 17 yrs
License
GPL-3 OSI · relicensed from MIT License in 1.17
Minimum R
≥ 3.5.0
Download size
2.8 KB

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citation("r4ss")
Taylor, I. G., A'mar, Z. T., Anderson, S. C., Cooper, A. B., Denson, L. S., Doering, K. L., Emmet, R. L., Fletcher, E., Francis, R. I. C. C., Garrison, T. M., Havron, A. M., Hicks, A. C., Iwasaki, W. M., Johnson, K. F., Klaer, N. L., Kuriyama, P., Lambert, G. I., Magnusson, A., McGilliard, C. R., Monnahan, C. C., Mosqueira, I., Novak, A. J., Oken, K. L., Ono, K., Oshima, M., Perl, E., Punt, A. E., Qi, L., Stachura, M. M., Stawitz, C. C., Stephens, A., Stewart, I. J., Takeuchi, Y., Thorson, J. T., Vaughan, N. R., Wallace, J. R., Wetzel, C. R., Whitten, A. R., & Winker, H. (2026). r4ss: Compatibility Notice for Stock Synthesis Tools (Version 1.44.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.r4ss

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for r4ss version 1.44.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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