R Observatory: Metrics for rKIN version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rKIN

1.0.4

(Kernel) Isotope Niche Estimation

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

0.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Shannon E AlbekeFirst published 2017-01-247 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

0.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,005 · ~7/day · ~223/mo

Releases R versions

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2.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ salbeke/rkin

4Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

59Commits

2Contributors

59 commits · Last activity 2025-03-03

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.1.0ks sf

Imports (6)

ggplot2MASSRColorBrewer randomcoloR shades dplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Shannon E Albeke

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Shannon E Albeke

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
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check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rKIN version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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