rFIA

1.1.4

Estimation of Forest Variables using the FIA Database

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey DoserFirst published 2019-10-2815 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The goal of 'rFIA' is to increase the accessibility and use of the United States Forest Services (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Database by providing a user-friendly, open source toolkit to easily query and analyze FIA Data. Designed to accommodate a wide range of potential user objectives, 'rFIA' simplifies the estimation of forest variables from the FIA Database and allows all R users (experts and newcomers alike) to unlock the flexibility inherent to the Enhanced FIA design. Specifically, 'rFIA' improves accessibility to the spatial-temporal estimation capacity of the FIA Database by producing space-time indexed summaries of forest variables within user-defined population boundaries. Direct integration with other popular R packages (e.g., 'dplyr', 'tidyr', and 'sf') facilitates efficient space-time query and data summary, and supports common data representations and API design. The package implements design-based estimation procedures outlined by Bechtold & Patterson (2005) doi:10.2737/SRS-GTR-80, and has been validated against estimates and sampling errors produced by FIA 'EVALIDator'. Current development is focused on the implementation of spatially-enabled model-assisted and model-based estimators to improve population, change, and ratio estimates.

Install

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

install.packages("rFIA", 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("doserjef/rFIA")

Development version from doserjef/rFIA. 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-rfia

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-rFIA

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-rFIA

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

Health

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Repository

GitHub ↗ doserjef/rfia

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

dplyr dtplyr tidyr stringr sfparallelmethodsdata.table tidyselect (>= 1.0.0)rlang ggplot2

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Suggests (6)

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 12,878 (79%)Rd 3,424 (21%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S36

Cyclomatic complexity: 6.0 median / 55 max
Documented parameters: 99%

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Functions

95 25 exported

Complexity

9.1 avg / 55 max

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95 nodes / 302 edges

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Jeffrey Doser

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.1

Authors (3)

Jeffrey Doser

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.1

Andrew Finley

Author

Hunter Stanke

Author

Package Timeline

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issues were not corrected in time
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2021-06-08
issues were not corrected in time Uses 'closeAllConnections()'
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Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-28
Total releases: 15 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.3 MB / 2 files
Download size: 4.3 MB
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