R Observatory: Metrics for sorcering version 1.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sorcering

1.2.4Package record

Soil Organic Carbon and CN Ratio Driven Nitrogen Modelling Framework

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3.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marc ScherstjanoiCRAN page ↗

Can be used to model the fate of soil organic carbon and soil organic nitrogen and to calculate N mineralisation rates. Provides a framework that numerically solves differential equations of soil organic carbon models based on first-order kinetics and extends these models to include the nitrogen component. The name 'sorcering' is an acronym for 'Soil ORganic Carbon & CN Ratio drIven Nitrogen modellinG framework'.

Changes in 1.2.4

MAIN CHANGE

Removed crirtical error, where with single site simulations (multisite=FALSE) and with Cin or xin containing stochastic repetitions (list input)

simulations did not even start and input simulation time steps error appeared unjustified

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MINOR ISSUES

Previously, single-pool-models had to specify the value C0_fracts unnecessarily
Added error information for the case of no multiple sites and wrong xi time steps
Added site information when wrong number of time steps in input data for the case of multiple sites and uncertainties

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sorcering", 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-sorcering

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-sorcering

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-sorcering

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 11% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

Extended sorcering function documentation PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,494 · ~10/day · ~298/mo

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1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sorcering adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 7.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mathjaxr 3.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp mathjaxr Rdpack

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (2)

Marc Scherstjanoi

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.2 (2021)

Rene Dechow

Author

Releases (12)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-02
Total releases: 12 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 16 files
Download size: 962 KB

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Agricultural Science

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citation("sorcering")

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Scherstjanoi, M., & Dechow, R. (2026). sorcering: Soil Organic Carbon and CN Ratio Driven Nitrogen Modelling Framework (Version 1.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sorcering

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sorcering version 1.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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