R Observatory: Metrics for soilDB version 2.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

soilDB

2.9.2

Soil Database Interface

4packages depend

30.8Kdownloads / year

31.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew BrownFirst published 2012-01-0367 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of functions for reading soil data from U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) and National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) databases.

Install

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

install.packages("soilDB", 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/soilDB")

Development version from ncss-tech/soilDB. 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-soildb

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

# 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-soilDB

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-soilDB

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

31.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 69%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

30.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,672 · ~84/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

6.6K90 days

30.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on204 r2u23 autocran6.8K conda_forge101 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ncss-tech/soildb

100Stars

26Forks

29Open issues

1Open PRs

39Releases

3,703Commits

20Contributors

nrcsusdasoilsoil-surveysqlnasissoil-data-accesssoilweb

License GPL-3.0 · 3,703 commits · Last activity 2026-08-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-12 · 912026-07-07 · 100

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ncss-tech/soildb on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

grDevicesgraphicsstatsutilsmethodsdata.table DBI curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

aqp xml2 httr rvest odbc RSQLite sf wk terra raster knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

sharpshootR SoilTaxonomy apsimx aqp

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.5.8

Authors (4)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.5.8

Dylan Beaudette

Author · added in 2.3

Stephen Roecker

Author · added in 2.3

Jay Skovlin

Author · added in 2.3

Listed in earlier versions (5)

D.E. Beaudette

no longer listed · 0.3-2 to 2.0-1

J.M. Skovlin

no longer listed · 0.3-2 to 1.7

and S. Roecker

no longer listed · 1.8 to 1.8-7

J. Skovlin

no longer listed · 1.8 to 2.0-1

and S.M. Roecker

no longer listed · 1.8.14 to 2.0-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-01-03
Total releases: 67 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 266 KB / 8 files
Download size: 941 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for soilDB version 2.9.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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