R Observatory: Metrics for soilDB version 2.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

soilDB

2.9.2Package record

Soil Database Interface

1packages dependsuggested by 3

27.2Kdownloads / year

31.0%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew BrownCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 2.9.2

EDIT base URL (for get_EDIT_ecoclass_by_geoUnit() and make_EDIT_service_URL()) updated to new USDA-managed server: <https://edit.sc.egov.usda.gov/>
SoilWeb-based Web Coverage Services (soilColor.wcs(), ISSR800.wcs(), mukey.wcs()) have been updated with FY26 maps, now including most OCONUS soil surveys (AK, HI, PR, PW, GU, AS, MP)
downloadSSURGO() gains arguments include_spatial and include_tabular that are analogous to arguments of the same name from createSSURGO(). Also, added LAPPLY.FUN to support arbitrary parallel or progress reporting backends. Thanks to feature request from @dylanbeaudette (#470).
createSSURGO() improved performance of reading and writing of tabular data and type conversion

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-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

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  soilDB/tests/testthat/test-simplifyFragmentData.R (.Label: 6, .Names: 3)
  soilDB/tests/testthat/test-uncode.R (.Label: 3)
'.Label' should be changed to 'levels'.
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.9.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 6 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.9.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 108includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 28%16 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 17 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 23 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

27.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,183 · ~74/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.8K30 days

8.1K90 days

27.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on148 r2u5 autocran6.4K conda_forge159 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ncss-tech/soildb ↗Organization: ncss-tech

100Stars

26Forks

30Open issues

1Open PRs

39Releases

3,720Commits

20Commit identities

nrcsusdasoilsoil-surveysqlnasissoil-data-accesssoilweb

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 3,720 commits · Last activity 2026-10-01 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.9.3, ahead of CRAN 2.9.2 (checked 2026-10-25) · Discussions: 21 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
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

2025-10-22 · 942026-07-07 · 100

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ncss-tech/soildb on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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 2026-07-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-14

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing soilDB adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 8.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, DBI 727 KB.

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

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sharpshootR

Suggests, most downloaded first

aqp apsimx SoilTaxonomy

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Andrew Brown

Author, Maintainer since 2.5.8 (2020) · 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

Previously maintained by Dylan Beaudette (0.3-2 to 2.5).

Listed in earlier versions (5)

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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

S. Roecker

no longer listed · 1.8 to 1.8-7

J. Skovlin

no longer listed · 1.8 to 2.0-1

S.M. Roecker

no longer listed · 1.8.14 to 2.0-1

Releases (61)

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2.9.2Latest
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2026-07-11 · current release · diff ↗
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get_SDA_NASIS_key
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added 4 exports
fetchHWSD, get_HWSD_path, get_phroots_from_NASIS_db, soilDB_user_dir
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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get_projectmilestone_from_NASIS, get_site_association_from_NASIS, get_vegplot_groundsurface_from_NASIS_db
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fetchSOLUS
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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get_NASIS_table_metadata, get_ecosite_history_from_NASIS_db
2.7.6
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added 5 exports
fetchSRI, get_SRI, get_SRI_layers, get_soilDB_env, soilDB.env
2.7.5
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soilColor.wcs
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NASISChoiceList, get_NASIS_column_metadata, get_NASIS_metadata, get_competing_soilseries_from_NASIS
2.7.2
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ROSETTA, getHzErrorsPedonPC, get_NASIS_table_key_by_name, get_NASIS_table_name_by_purpose, get_OSD_JSON, get_RMF_from_NASIS_db, get_SDA_coecoclass, get_chorizon_from_NASISWebReport, get_component_from_GDB, get_component_from_NASISWebReport, get_concentrations_from_NASIS_db, get_cosoilmoist_from_NASISWebReport, get_cosoilmoist_from_SDA, get_legend_from_GDB, get_legend_from_NASISWebReport, get_lmuaoverlap_from_NASISWebReport, get_mapunit_from_GDB, get_mapunit_from_NASISWebReport, get_phfmp_from_NASIS_db, get_progress_from_NASISWebReport, get_project_correlation_from_NASISWebReport, get_project_from_NASISWebReport, get_projectmapunit2_from_NASISWebReport, get_projectmapunit_from_NASISWebReport, get_sitesoilmoist_from_NASISWebReport, get_soilseries_from_NASISWebReport, taxaExtent
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ISSR800.wcs, KSSL_VG_model, NASIS, NASISDomainsAsFactor, OSDquery, SCAN_sensor_metadata, SCAN_site_metadata, SDA_query, SDA_spatialQuery, STRplot, SoilWeb_spatial_query, WCS_details, code, createSSURGO, createStaticNASIS, dbConnectNASIS, dbQueryNASIS, downloadSSURGO, estimateColorMixture, estimateSTR, fetchGDB, fetchHenry, fetchKSSL, fetchLDM, fetchNASIS, fetchNASISLabData, fetchNASISWebReport, fetchOSD, fetchPedonPC, fetchRaCA and 90 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2012-01-03
Total releases: 61 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 266 KB / 8 files
Download size: 941 KB

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citation("soilDB")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for soilDB version 2.9.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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