R Observatory: Metrics for track2KBA version 1.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

track2KBA

1.1.3Package record

Identifying Important Areas from Animal Tracking Data

0packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

92.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin BealCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions for preparing and analyzing animal tracking data, with the intention of identifying areas which are potentially important at the population level and therefore of conservation interest. Areas identified using this package may be checked against global or regionally-defined criteria, such as those set by the Key Biodiversity Area program. The method published herein is described in full in Beal et al. 2021 doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13713.

Install

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

install.packages("track2KBA", 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("BirdLifeInternational/track2kba")

Development version from BirdLifeInternational/track2kba. 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-track2kba

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-track2KBA

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-track2KBA

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: 9.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-23
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.3

READMEYes · 1,924 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.1.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 92%12 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

track2KBA workflow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,038 · ~12/day · ~372/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

54430 days

1.2K90 days

4.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u3 autocran88 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

birdlifeinternational/track2kba ↗Organization: BirdLifeInternational

15Stars

6Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

486Commits

7Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-3.0 · 486 commits · Last activity 2025-07-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 73%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 432
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-24 · 132026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/birdlifeinternational/track2kba on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS and Windows

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing track2KBA adds 66 packages (46 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (17)

adehabitatHR dplyr foreach geosphere ggplot2 lubridate magrittr maps Matchingmethodsmove purrr raster (>= 3.6-3)rlang sf sp tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

adehabitatLT doParallel knitrparallelrmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Martin Beal

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Virginia Morera-Pujol

Contributor

Elizabeth Pearmain

Contributor

Phillip Taylor

Contributor

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-23
check problems were not corrected in time Does not uses suggested packages conditionally
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-05
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 925 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Appears in task views

Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("track2KBA")

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

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.13713.

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 track2KBA version 1.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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