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

1.3.0

SPEW Framework for Generating Synthetic Ecosystems

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lee F. Richardson1 releasesCRAN 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

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Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.27

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 21 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 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

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none

Suggests (17)

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

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.2 MB / 6 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spew

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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