R Observatory: Metrics for electivity version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

electivity

1.0.2Package record

Algorithms for Electivity Indices

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Desi QuintansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides all electivity algorithms (including Vanderploeg and Scavia electivity) that were examined in Lechowicz (1982) doi:10.1007/BF00349007, plus the example data that were provided for moth resource utilisation.

Changes in 1.0.2

MOD - Commented examples were uncommented.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("electivity", 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("DesiQuintans/electivity")

Development version from DesiQuintans/electivity. 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-electivity

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-electivity

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-electivity

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: 50 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-11
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 434 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,145 · ~6/day · ~197/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26730 days

68690 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on153 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

desiquintans/electivity ↗Account: DesiQuintans

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

26Commits

1Commit identities

ecologyelectivityrr-package

26 commits · Last activity 2019-08-21

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2021-01-27 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/desiquintans/electivity on 2026-10-22.

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing electivity adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

utilsusethis

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 (1)

Desi Quintans

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2019)

Releases (1)

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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.2Latest
record
2019-08-20 · current release
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-20
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 4.4 KB / 4 files
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("electivity")

Format

Quintans, D. (2019). electivity: Algorithms for Electivity Indices (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.electivity

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 electivity version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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