R Observatory: Metrics for soilKey version 0.9.184

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

soilKey

0.9.184

Automated Soil Profile Classification per WRB 2022, 'SiBCS' 5 and USDA Soil Taxonomy 13

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

79.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugo RodriguesFirst published 2026-05-194 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements deterministic classification keys for the World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2022 (4th edition) and the Brazilian System of Soil Classification ('SiBCS', 5th edition). Provides a unified profile representation with explicit per-attribute provenance, multimodal extraction from field reports and photos via vision-language models, spatial priors from 'SoilGrids' and national soil maps, and gap-filling of soil attributes from Vis-NIR or MIR spectra via the Open Soil Spectral Library ('OSSL'). The taxonomic key itself is never delegated to a language model; LLMs are restricted to schema-validated extraction. Each classification result reports a key trace, a provenance-aware evidence grade, and ambiguities that further measurement would resolve.

Install

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

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

Development version from HugoMachadoRodrigues/soilKey. 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-soilkey

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-soilKey

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-soilKey

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 11.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.56

79.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-06-19
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-17
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-20
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 5,114 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 40%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 18%

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,784 · ~3/day · ~106/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hugomachadorodrigues/soilkey

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0Forks

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3Open PRs

25Releases

405Commits

5Contributors

405 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · +16.7% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hugomachadorodrigues/soilkey on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dockerfile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffZenodo

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Development tooling

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Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-04-25

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Most recent: claude on 2026-04-25

Evidence

claude: on 2026-04-25 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (5)

R6 data.table yaml cli rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Hugo Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hugo Rodrigues

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.9.184Latest
2026-07-08 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.157
2026-06-30 · diff ↗
0.9.155
2026-06-22 · diff ↗
0.9.97
2026-05-19
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-19
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 1 file
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("soilKey")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for soilKey version 0.9.184 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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