R Observatory: Metrics for spbal version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spbal

1.0.1Package record

Spatially Balanced Sampling Algorithms

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.3Kdownloads / year

53.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Phil DaviesCRAN page ↗

Encapsulates a number of spatially balanced sampling algorithms, namely, Balanced Acceptance Sampling (equal, unequal, seed point, panels), Halton frames (for discretizing a continuous resource), Halton Iterative Partitioning (equal probability) and Simple Random Sampling. Robertson, B. L., Brown, J. A., McDonald, T. and Jaksons, P. (2013) doi:10.1111/biom.12059. Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2017) doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004. Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2018) doi:10.1007/s10651-018-0406-6. Robertson, B. L., van Dam-Bates, P. and Gansell, O. (2021a) doi:10.1007/s10651-020-00481-1. Robertson, B. L., Davies, P., Gansell, O., van Dam-Bates, P., McDonald, T. (2025) doi:10.1111/anzs.12435.

Changes in 1.0.1

Fix bug when excessively large BB provided relative to study area.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spbal", 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-spbal

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-spbal

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-spbal

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: 4.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 36 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 35 (25 internal)
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

spbal - Spatially Balanced Sampling

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,655 · ~6/day · ~190/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26530 days

69690 days

2.3K1 year

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Also on357 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spbal adds 10 packages (9 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (3)

units sf Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppThread

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown testthat bookdown ggplot2 gridExtra

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rLakeHabitat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Phil Davies

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Oliver Gansell

Author

Blair Robertson

Author

Paul van Dam-Bates

Author

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-05-17
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 526 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spbal")

Format

Davies, P., Gansell, O., Robertson, B., & van Dam-Bates, P. (2025). spbal: Spatially Balanced Sampling Algorithms (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spbal

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spbal version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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