R Observatory: Metrics for rCTOOL version 3.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rCTOOL

3.1.0

Soil Organic Carbon Turnover Modelling with 'C-TOOL'

0packages depend

356downloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Franca Giannini-KurinaFirst published 2026-07-041 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides an 'R' interface to the 'C-TOOL' soil carbon turnover model for simulating soil organic carbon dynamics in agricultural systems. The package supports the definition of carbon inputs, management schedules, soil parameters, and temperature forcing, and includes tools for scenario analysis and calibration of selected model parameters against observed soil organic carbon stocks. The 'C-TOOL' model and related modelling framework are described by Petersen et al. (2002) doi:10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00034-0, Petersen et al. (2005) doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.08.006, Petersen et al. (2013) doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.007, and Taghizadeh-Toosi et al. (2014) doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.08.016. Further applications and developments are described by Taghizadeh-Toosi et al. (2016) doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2016.03.004, Keel et al. (2017) doi:10.1111/ejss.12454, Taghizadeh-Toosi et al. (2020) doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04500-9, and Taghizadeh-Toosi and Christensen (2021) doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97744-z.

Install

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

install.packages("rCTOOL", 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-rctool

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-rCTOOL

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-rCTOOL

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-07-05
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,217 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 76%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

356

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,095 · ~1/day · ~30/mo

Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

data.tableutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

dplyr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown reshape2 testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Franca Giannini-Kurina

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Franca Giannini-Kurina

Author, Maintainer

João Serra

Author

Evandro H. Figueiredo Moura da Silva

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Silva

no longer listed · 3.1.0

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

3.1.0Latest
2026-07-04 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 8.0 KB / 3 files
Download size: 3.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("rCTOOL")

Format

Giannini-Kurina, F., Serra, J., & Silva, E. H. F. M. d. (2026). rCTOOL: Soil Organic Carbon Turnover Modelling with 'C-TOOL' (Version 3.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rCTOOL

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rCTOOL version 3.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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