R Observatory: Metrics for spatialRF version 1.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spatialRF

1.1.5Package record

Easy Spatial Modeling with Random Forest

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Blas M. BenitoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Automatic generation and selection of spatial predictors for Random Forest models fitted to spatially structured data. Spatial predictors are constructed from a distance matrix among training samples using Moran's Eigenvector Maps (MEMs; Dray, Legendre, and Peres-Neto 2006 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.02.015) or the RFsp approach (Hengl et al. DOI:10.7717/peerj.5518). These predictors are used alongside user-supplied explanatory variables in Random Forest models. The package provides functions for model fitting, multicollinearity reduction, interaction identification, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation via spatial cross-validation, and result visualization using partial dependence and interaction plots. Model fitting relies on the 'ranger' package (Wright and Ziegler 2017 DOI:10.18637/jss.v077.i01).

Changes in 1.1.5

Fixed Windows-specific error in get_response_curves(), plot_response_curves(), rf_evaluate(), and rf() where predict() method dispatch failed to find predict.ranger(). Added @importFrom ranger ranger to ensure ranger's namespace is loaded and S3 methods are properly registered.
Code quality improvements: fixed 129 linting issues identified by jarl linter, including inefficient vector logic operators in if statements (| → ||, & → &&), redundant equality comparisons (== TRUE → direct boolean), and corrected two bugs in on.exit() calls that weren't properly restoring user options.
Fixed error Error in validate_prop(value, prop, check_fun, check_values, reset_na) : check_fun(value) is not TRUE generated by huxtable::set_all_borders(TRUE).
Fixed warning "Using size aesthetic for lines was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0. ℹ Please use linewidth instead." produced by outdated calls to geom_line().
Fixed issue with deprecated argument draw_quantiles of geom_violin().
Replaced deprecated calls to ggplot2::aes_string() with ggplot2::aes() plus .data[[whatever]].
Fixed parallelization issues with zombi processess across functions.
Added internal helper function setup_parallel_execution() to centralize and improve parallel backend management across all functions. Now properly detects and respects user-configured backends (via future, doParallel, etc.) while maintaining support for external and internal cluster objects.
Refactored cluster setup code across all parallelized functions (rf_spatial(), rf_evaluate(), rf_tuning(), rf_repeat(), rf_compare(), rf_importance(), the_feature_engineer(), select_spatial_predictors_sequential(), select_spatial_predictors_recursive()) to use the new helper, improving consistency and reducing code duplication.
Removed if(interactive()){} wrappers from function examples to ensure examples run during R CMD check.
Function rf_spatial() now fits a spatial model even when that's not necessary.
Simplified auto_cor() and auto_vif() with unified sequential evaluation algorithm that better preserves user preference order.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spatialRF", 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("BlasBenito/spatialRF")

Development version from BlasBenito/spatialRF. 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-spatialrf

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-spatialRF

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-spatialRF

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: 9.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-18
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-09-12
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 74 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 97%62 run in a plain check (14 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,827 · ~15/day · ~449/mo

Releases R versions

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57230 days

1.2K90 days

5.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

blasbenito/spatialrf ↗Account: BlasBenito

126Stars

18Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

490Commits

1Commit identities

spatial-regressionrandom-forestspatial-analysis

490 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-05-14 · 1152026-09-12 · 126

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/blasbenito/spatialrf on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-07-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-15

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spatialRF adds 49 packages (26 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (15)

dplyr ggplot2 magrittrstatstibbleutilsforeach doParallel ranger rlang tidyr tidyselect huxtable (>= 5.8.0)patchwork viridis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Blas M. Benito

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-23
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.1.5
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 942 KB / 7 files
Download size: 3.4 MB

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Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("spatialRF")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v077.i01, 10.5281/zenodo.4745208.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spatialRF version 1.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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