R Observatory: Metrics for riverdist version 0.17.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

riverdist

0.17.1Package record

River Network Distance Computation and Applications

0packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

53.7%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt TyersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Reads river network shape files and computes network distances. Also included are a variety of computation and graphical tools designed for fisheries telemetry research, such as minimum home range, kernel density estimation, and clustering analysis using empirical k-functions with a bootstrap envelope. Tools are also provided for editing the river networks, meaning there is no reliance on external software.

Changes in 0.17.1

Patch to fix waldo dependency

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("riverdist", 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("mbtyers/riverdist")

Development version from mbtyers/riverdist. 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-riverdist

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-riverdist

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-riverdist

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘plotdensity.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'plotdensity.R'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.17.1

READMEYes · 582 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.17.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 85includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%67 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

riverdist_vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,344 · ~23/day · ~696/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56030 days

1.5K90 days

8.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u7 autocran149 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mbtyers/riverdist ↗Account: mbtyers

28Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

200Commits

5Commit identities

200 commits · Last activity 2024-11-07

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Issues over time

2026-07-14 · 72026-09-17 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mbtyers/riverdist on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing riverdist adds 9 packages (8 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

sfmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown tibble 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)

Matt Tyers

Author, Maintainer since 0.11.0 (2016)

Releases (18)

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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 4.1.0 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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added 2 exports
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added 5 exports
addcumuldist, buildlookup, calculateconnections, pdisttot, splitsegmentat
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-02
Total releases: 18 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.6 MB / 14 files
Download size: 3.1 MB

Appears in task views

Hydrological Data and Modeling Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("riverdist")

Format

Tyers, M. (2024). riverdist: River Network Distance Computation and Applications (Version 0.17.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.riverdist

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

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 riverdist version 0.17.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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