R Observatory: Metrics for spew version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2019-03-08. Its history is shown below.

Reason: check problems were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 1.3.0, its last release before removal.

spew

1.3.0Package record

SPEW Framework for Generating Synthetic Ecosystems

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–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lee F. RichardsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for generating synthetic synthetic using the SPEW (Synthetic Populations and Ecosystems of the World) framework. We provide functions for the 'synthesis' step of the SPEW, which converts harmonized data into a synthetic ecosystem. We also provide functions for visualizing and summarizing synthetic ecosystems generated by SPEW. For details see Gallagher, S., Richardson, L.F., Ventura, S.L., Eddy W.F. (2017) arXiv:1701.02383.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/spew/spew_1.3.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "spew_1.3.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.3.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("leerichardson/spew")

Development version from leerichardson/spew. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

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Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMEYes · 21 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 130includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 28%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 2%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

sp maptools plyrmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

testthat knitr rmarkdown doParallel foreach stringdist ggmap rgeos Rmpi mipfp quadprog data.table rgdal ggplot2 reshape2 devtoolsparallel

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People & History

People (4)

Contributor

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Maintainer since 1.3.0 (2017)

Releases (1)

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-08
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3.0
record
2017-11-03
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-03
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.2 MB / 6 files

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spew")

Format

Richardson, L. F., Gallagher, S., Ventura, S. L., & Eddy, W. F. (n.d.). spew: SPEW Framework for Generating Synthetic Ecosystems (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spew

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spew version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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