R Observatory: Metrics for rKIN version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rKIN

1.0.4Package record

(Kernel) Isotope Niche Estimation

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

0.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Shannon E AlbekeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Applies methods used to estimate animal homerange, but instead of geospatial coordinates, we use isotopic coordinates. The estimation methods include: 1) 2-dimensional bivariate normal kernel utilization density estimator, 2) bivariate normal ellipse estimator, and 3) minimum convex polygon estimator, all applied to stable isotope data. Additionally, functions to determine niche area, polygon overlap between groups and levels (confidence contours) and plotting capabilities.

Install

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

install.packages("rKIN", 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("salbeke/rKIN")

Development version from salbeke/rKIN. 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-rkin

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-rKIN

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-rKIN

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to rKIN (Kernel Isotope Niche) HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,027 · ~8/day · ~232/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34130 days

81190 days

2.8K1 year

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Also on66 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

salbeke/rkin ↗Account: salbeke

4Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

59Commits

2Commit identities

59 commits · Last activity 2025-03-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-22 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/salbeke/rkin on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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 rKIN adds 51 packages (33 with compiled code, 55 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.1.0ks sf

Imports (6)

ggplot2MASSRColorBrewer randomcoloR shades dplyr

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

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Shannon E Albeke

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2017)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-11
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added 8 exports
bw_hbcv, bw_hlscv, bw_hnm, bw_hns, bw_hpi, bw_hscv, bw_hucv, bw_ref
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-09
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-24
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 27 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rKIN")

Format

Albeke, S. E. (2025). rKIN: (Kernel) Isotope Niche Estimation (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rKIN

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rKIN version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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