R Observatory: Metrics for soilfoodwebs version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

soilfoodwebs

1.0.2

Soil Food Web Analysis

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

19.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert BuchkowskiFirst published 2023-05-091 releasesCRAN page ↗

Analyzing soil food webs or any food web measured at equilibrium. The package calculates carbon and nitrogen fluxes and stability properties using methods described by Hunt et al. (1987) doi:10.1007/BF00260580, de Ruiter et al. (1995) doi:10.1126/science.269.5228.1257, Holtkamp et al. (2011) doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.004, and Buchkowski and Lindo (2021) doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13706. The package can also manipulate the structure of the food web as well as simulate food webs away from equilibrium and run decomposition experiments.

Install

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

install.packages("soilfoodwebs", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-soilfoodwebs

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-soilfoodwebs

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-soilfoodwebs

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

19.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 223 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,640 · ~6/day · ~190/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

stringr diagramgraphicsquadprog lpSolve rootSolve (>= 1.8.2.2)deSolve

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Robert Buchkowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

Robert Buchkowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Carlos Barreto

Author

Zoë Lindo

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Robert Buchkowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-09
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 7.7 KB / 6 files
Download size: 154 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("soilfoodwebs")

Format

Buchkowski, R., Barreto, C., & Lindo, Z. (2023). soilfoodwebs: Soil Food Web Analysis (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.soilfoodwebs

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for soilfoodwebs version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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