FLightR

0.5.6

Reconstruct Animal Paths from Solar Geolocation Loggers Data

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

44.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eldar RakhimberdievFirst published 2016-12-1512 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Spatio-temporal locations of an animal are computed from annotated data with a hidden Markov model via particle filter algorithm. The package is relatively robust to varying degrees of shading. The hidden Markov model is described in Movement Ecology - Rakhimberdiev et al. (2015) doi:10.1186/s40462-015-0062-5, general package description is in the Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Rakhimberdiev et al. (2017) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12765 and package accuracy assessed in the Journal of Avian Biology - Rakhimberdiev et al. (2016) doi:10.1111/jav.00891.

Install

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

install.packages("FLightR", 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("eldarrak/FLightR")

Development version from eldarrak/FLightR. 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-flightr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-FLightR

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-FLightR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

44.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 455 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,310 · ~11/day · ~331/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eldarrak/flightr

23Stars

11Forks

3Open issues

2Open PRs

24Releases

1,545Commits

5Contributors

cransolar-geolocation-loggersr-packagesolar-geolocatormovement-ecologyr

1,545 commits · Last activity 2026-06-22

Stars over time

2025-03-25 · 232026-07-07 · 23

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eldarrak/flightr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (3)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

bit geosphere ggmap ggplot2 CircStats circular fields mapsmgcvnlmeparallelRcppArmadillo sf suntools truncnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown yaml

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 6,222 (83%)Rd 1,110 (15%)Vignettes 203 (3%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 76 max
Test cases: 46 / 0.19 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

44%

Expression

45.2%

Tests / Examples

44.2% / 39% ex

Functions

114 18 exported

Complexity

6.2 avg / 76 max

Call network

114 nodes / 107 edges

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Lowest coverage

114 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
FLightR2Movebank exp	4	0%
find.times.distribution exp	13	0%
get_ZI_distances exp	3	0%
plot_likelihood exp	2	0%
build.partial.movement.cache	1	0%
build.partial.movement.entry	3	0%

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Eldar Rakhimberdiev

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4.7

Authors (3)

Eldar Rakhimberdiev

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4.7

Julia Karagicheva

Author

Anatoly Saveliev

Author · added in 0.4.7

Contributors (2)

Simeon Lisovski

Contributor · added in 0.4.7

Johannes de Groeve

Contributor · added in 0.5.4

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Eldar Rakhimberdiev with contributions from Anatoly Saveliev

no longer listed · 0.4.5 to 0.4.6

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.5.6Latest
2026-06-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.5
2024-07-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-07-04
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-10-16
requires archived package 'ggsn'
0.5.4
2023-10-03 · diff ↗
0.5.3
2023-09-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.5.2
2022-02-15 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-02-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-11-14
requires archived package 'GeoLight'
0.5.1
2021-07-06 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-06

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-05-25
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.0
2020-05-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.9
2019-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.8
2019-02-07 · diff ↗
0.4.7
2018-10-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.6
2017-03-14 · diff ↗
0.4.5
2016-12-15
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-15
Total releases: 12 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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