R Observatory: Metrics for rcontroll version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcontroll

0.1.3Package record

Individual-Based Forest Growth Simulator 'TROLL'

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sylvain SchmittCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'TROLL' is coded in C++ and it typically simulates hundreds of thousands of individuals over hundreds of years. The 'rcontroll' R package is a wrapper of 'TROLL'. 'rcontroll' includes functions that generate inputs for simulations and run simulations. Finally, it is possible to analyse the 'TROLL' outputs through tables, figures, and maps taking advantage of other R visualisation packages. 'rcontroll' also offers the possibility to generate a virtual LiDAR point cloud that corresponds to a snapshot of the simulated forest.

Install

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

install.packages("rcontroll", 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("sylvainschmitt/rcontroll")

Development version from sylvainschmitt/rcontroll. 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-rcontroll

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-rcontroll

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 11.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 942 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 30 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 57%8 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,210 · ~8/day · ~235/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35130 days

1.1K90 days

2.8K1 year

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Also on367 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sylvainschmitt/rcontroll ↗Account: sylvainschmitt

15Stars

11Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

347Commits

10Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 347 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 571
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-08-05 · 132026-09-21 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sylvainschmitt/rcontroll on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and macOS

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-03, before release 0.1.3 (2026-08-04)

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (4)

lintrLint workflowVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcontroll adds 66 packages (38 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (21)

methodsutilsreadr sys dplyr magrittr reshape2 (>= 1.3.0)ggplot2 viridis parallel (>= 3.5.0)doParallel doSNOW foreach (>= 1.4.1)iterators Rcpp gganimate (>= 1.0.0)vroom tidyr tibble lubridate terra

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppGSL

Suggests (6)

markdown knitr rmarkdown testthat covr lidR

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Sylvain Schmitt

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

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Author

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Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-08-04
0.1.3Latest
record
2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-09
requires archived package 'lidR'
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.2
record
2024-09-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
record
2023-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_log, load_sim
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
record
2023-02-11
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-11
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: r-lidar.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 324 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

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citation("rcontroll")

Format

Schmitt, S., Chave, J., Fischer, F., Maréchaux, I., & Salzet, G. (2026). rcontroll: Individual-Based Forest Growth Simulator 'TROLL' (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rcontroll

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rcontroll version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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