R Observatory: Metrics for sads version 0.6.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sads

0.6.5Package record

Maximum Likelihood Models for Species Abundance Distributions

2packages depend

17.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paulo I. PradoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Maximum likelihood tools to fit and compare models of species abundance distributions and of species rank-abundance distributions.

Install

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

install.packages("sads", 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("piLaboratory/sads")

Development version from piLaboratory/sads. 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-sads

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-sads

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-sads

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘coverpred.Rd’ ‘octavpred.Rd’ ‘radpred.Rd’ ‘trueLL.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 47includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%33 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 81%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to sads PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

17.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,230 · ~48/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

3.6K90 days

17.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on635 r2u5 autocran5.3K conda_forge251 bioconda

How downloads are counted

Repository

pilaboratory/sads ↗Organization: piLaboratory

24Stars

4Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

549Commits

4Commit identities

549 commits · Last activity 2025-10-15

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 17
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-11 · 242026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pilaboratory/sads on 2026-10-18.

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sads adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: poweRlaw 4.3 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0statsstats4bbmle

Imports (8)

MASSmethodsgraphicsgrDevicesVGAM poilog GUILDS poweRlaw

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

vegan

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

9indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

univariateML mobsim

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Paulo I. Prado

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.10 (2014)

Andre Chalom

Author · added in 0.2.1

Murilo Dantas Miranda

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Miranda

no longer listed · 0.6.5

Prado

no longer listed · 0.6.5

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.5Latest
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2025-09-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6.3
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2024-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
fitexp, fitgammaC, fitexpC, fitlnormC, fitparetoC, fitweibullC, fitsadC, coverpred
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
0.4.2
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2018-06-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.1
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2017-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
Svolkov
0.4.0
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2017-06-17 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2017-06-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.3.1
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2016-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 20 exports
dpowbend, ppowbend, qpowbend, rbs, rgs, rls, rmand, rmzsm, rpareto, rpoilog, rpower, rrbs, rvolkov, rzipf, rpoig, rpoix, rpowbend, fitpowbend, likelregions, rtrunc
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.4
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2015-11-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
distr
0.2.3
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2015-09-25 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2015-07-12 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2015-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
trueLL

added 9 exports
dpoig, dpoix, ppoig, ppoix, qmzsm, qpoig, qpoix, updatesad, updaterad
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1.10
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2014-07-02
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-02
Total releases: 12 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 4.5 KB / 6 files
Download size: 958 KB

Cite

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citation("sads")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sads version 0.6.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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