R Observatory: Metrics for soilFlux version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

soilFlux

0.1.5Package record

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Soil Water Retention Curves

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

15.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugo RodriguesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements a physics-informed one-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN1D-PINN) for estimating the complete soil water retention curve (SWRC) as a continuous function of matric potential, from soil texture, organic carbon, bulk density, and depth. The network architecture ensures strict monotonic decrease of volumetric water content with increasing suction by construction, through cumulative integration of non-negative slope outputs (monotone integral architecture). Four physics-based residual constraints adapted from Norouzi et al. (2025) doi:10.1029/2024WR038149 are embedded in the loss function: (S1) linearity at the dry end (pF in [5, 7.6]); (S2) non-negativity at pF = 6.2; (S3) non-positivity at pF = 7.6; and (S4) a near-zero derivative in the saturated plateau region (pF in [-2, -0.3]). Includes tools for data preparation, model training, dense prediction, performance metrics, texture classification, and publication-quality visualisation.

Install

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

install.packages("soilFlux", 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("HugoMachadoRodrigues/soilFlux")

Development version from HugoMachadoRodrigues/soilFlux. 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-soilflux

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-soilFlux

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-soilFlux

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK7 OK2026-03-27

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.5

READMEYes · 1,226 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 54 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 59%17 run in a plain check · 12 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to soilFlux

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,494 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32130 days

88190 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on79 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hugomachadorodrigues/soilflux ↗

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

58Commits

1Commit identities

58 commits · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-04-28 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hugomachadorodrigues/soilflux on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing soilFlux adds 48 packages (26 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, tfruns 1.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

dplyr tidyr ggplot2 purrr tibble stringr reticulate tensorflow rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

keras3 ggtern readxl scales (>= 1.2.0)knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

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)

Hugo Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.5 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.5Latest
record
2026-03-26 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-26
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 18 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.4 MB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("soilFlux")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.18990856.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 soilFlux version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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