R Observatory: Metrics for rWCVP version 1.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-11-28. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 1.2.4, its last release before removal.

rWCVP

1.2.4

Generating Summaries, Reports and Plots from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matilda Brown1 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A companion to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). It includes functions to generate maps and species lists, as well as match names to the WCVP. For more details and to cite the package, see: Brown M.J.M., Walker B.E., Black N., Govaerts R., Ondo I., Turner R., Nic Lughadha E. (in press). "rWCVP: A companion R package to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants". New Phytologist.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rWCVP/rWCVP_1.2.4.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "rWCVP_1.2.4.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.2.4) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("matildabrown/rWCVP")

Development version from matildabrown/rWCVP. 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-rwcvp

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

not tracked

Coverage

95%

Documentation · exports

16

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 78 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 36%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

rWCVP Releases R versions

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Also on113 r2u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (16)

cli dplyr ggplot2 gt htmltools magrittr phonics purrr RecordLinkage rlang rmarkdown sf stringr tibble tidyr withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rWCVPdata knitr testthat spdep

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Matilda Brown

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Matilda Brown

Author, Maintainer

Barnaby Walker

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-11-28
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.4
2023-02-16
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: matildabrown.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.4 MB / 4 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rWCVP")

Format

Brown, M., & Walker, B. (n.d.). rWCVP: Generating Summaries, Reports and Plots from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (Version 1.2.4) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rWCVP

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rWCVP version 1.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-13, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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