R Observatory: Metrics for rangeBuilder version 2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rangeBuilder

2.2Package record

Occurrence Filtering, Geographic Standardization and Generation of Species Range Polygons

2packages dependsuggested by 1

8.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pascal TitleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for filtering occurrence records, generating alpha-hull-derived range polygons and mapping species distributions.

Install

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

install.packages("rangeBuilder", 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("ptitle/rangeBuilder")

Development version from ptitle/rangeBuilder. 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-rangebuilder

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-rangeBuilder

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-rangeBuilder

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: 3.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%8 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,226 · ~23/day · ~692/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55630 days

1.6K90 days

8.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on398 r2u9 autocran1.3K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ptitle/rangebuilder ↗Account: ptitle

9Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

78Commits

3Commit identities

78 commits · Last activity 2024-10-31

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 59
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 52

Stars over time

2025-02-12 · 92026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ptitle/rangebuilder on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rangeBuilder adds 56 packages (35 with compiled code, 62 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

alphahull stringi sf terra pbapply units rnaturalearthmethodsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

voluModel envar

Suggests, most downloaded first

climateStability

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Pascal Title

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.2Latest
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2024-10-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1
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2023-03-03 · diff ↗
2.0
record
2022-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
downloadDates, getAcceptedFromSynonym, getAcceptedNames, getAllCountries, getCountryFromSpecies, getSpFromCountry, getSynonymsFromAccepted, queryGISD, synonymMatch
1.6
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2022-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
getRepDBcountries, getRepDBcountryList, getRepDBSpFromCountry

added 3 exports
getAllCountries, getCountryFromSpecies, getSpFromCountry
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.5
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2019-12-10 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.4
record
2017-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
richnessRaster

added 1 export
rasterStackFromPolyList
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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1.3
record
2016-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
downloadDates
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.2
record
2016-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
coordError
1.1
record
2016-02-25 · diff ↗
1.0
record
2016-01-05
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-05
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 80 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rangeBuilder")

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

It points to 10.1038/ncomms11484.

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 rangeBuilder version 2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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