R Observatory: Metrics for sharpshootR version 2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sharpshootR needs aqp, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 11.

sharpshootR

2.5Package record

A Soil Survey Toolkit

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

23.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dylan BeaudetteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A collection of data processing, visualization, and export functions to support soil survey operations. Many of the functions build on the `SoilProfileCollection` S4 class provided by the aqp package, extending baseline visualization to more elaborate depictions in the context of spatial and taxonomic data. While this package is primarily developed by and for the USDA-NRCS, in support of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, the authors strive for generalization sufficient to support any soil survey operation. Many of the included functions are used by the SoilWeb suite of websites and movile applications. These functions are provided here, with additional documentation, to enable others to replicate high quality versions of these figures for their own purposes.

Changes in 2.5

CRAN release
now depends on R >= 4.1.0
bug fix in PCP_plot(), filter incomplete water years from exemplar selection
bug fix in CDEC_StationInfo()
bug fix in vizSurfaceShape(), no return value
better handling of ties in hydOrder() and viz*() functions which depend on this value when there are ties in geomorphic position proportions (#63)
new function vizGeomorphons() for geomorphon summaries returned by soilDB::fetchOSD()
geomorphic viz* function updates:
thinner line width on stacked barcharts
new default colors, inspired by PNWColors package
new arguments to adjust styling
new argument cluster for toggling ordering and dendrogram from divisive hierarchical clustering of proportions

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plotGeomorphCrossSection() updates:
new default colors
support for: 'geomcomp', 'flats', 'terraces', 'shape_across', 'shape_down', 'geomorphons'

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sharpshootR", 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("ncss-tech/sharpshootR")

Development version from ncss-tech/sharpshootR. 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-sharpshootr

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-sharpshootR

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-sharpshootR

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.5Citation fileNo

Help pages: 68 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%16 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition) · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 15%

Vignettes (1)

An Overview of the sharpshootR Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,762 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49430 days

1.3K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u3 autocran95 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ncss-tech/sharpshootr ↗Organization: ncss-tech

20Stars

3Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

1,327Commits

11Commit identities

1,327 commits · Last activity 2026-05-04 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 118
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 182026-07-07 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ncss-tech/sharpshootr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

39 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sharpshootR adds 30 packages (20 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, aqp 4.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (20)

grDevicesgraphicsmethodsstatsutilsaqp ape soilDBclusterlatticereshape2 scales circular RColorBrewer plyr digest e1071 stringi curlgrid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

aqpfix by Nov 11

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Dylan Beaudette

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.5

Andrew Brown

Author · added in 1.8.4

Stephen Roecker

Author · added in 1.5

Jay Skovlin

Author · added in 1.5

USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Staff

Contributor · added in 1.5

Maintainer since 0.6-1 (2014)

Releases (26)

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2.5Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.4
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-02-03
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-12-10 · diff ↗

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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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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-25
policy violation On Internet access, despite update
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-01-30
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-09
policy violation Persistent failures on Internet resources
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-11-21
1.5
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2019-11-21 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-10-28
requires archived package 'soilDB' by the same author
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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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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-05-03
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-03
Total releases: 26 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: hydromad.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 71 KB / 6 files
Download size: 236 KB

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Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sharpshootR")

Format

Beaudette, D., USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Staff, Brown, A., Roecker, S., & Skovlin, J. (2026). sharpshootR: A Soil Survey Toolkit (Version 2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sharpshootR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sharpshootR version 2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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