Rage

1.9.0

Life History Metrics from Matrix Population Models

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11.7Kdownloads / year

94.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Owen JonesFirst published 2021-05-0410 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for calculating life history metrics using matrix population models ('MPMs'). Described in Jones et al. (2021) doi:10.1101/2021.04.26.441330.

Install

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

install.packages("Rage", 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("jonesor/Rage")

Development version from jonesor/Rage. 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-rage

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

# 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-Rage

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

94.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,093 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 56%

Downloads

11.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jonesor/rage

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14Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

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123Contributors

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1,160 commits · Last activity 2026-05-04

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

DiagrammeR expmMASSpopdemostatsutils

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none

Suggests (8)

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

mpmsim

Code & Tests

People & History

People (18)

Maintainer (1)

Owen Jones

Author, Maintainer

Authors (16)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 1.8.0

Christina M. Hernández

Author

Richard A. Hinrichsen

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Roberto Salguero-Gomez

Author

Iain Stott

Author

Chelsea C. Thomas

Author

Lotte de Vries

Author · added in 1.8.0

Contributors (2)

Danny Buss

Contributor

Caroline Schuette

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (6)

Che-Castaldo

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.0

Thomas

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.0

Chelsea C.

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.9.0

Judy P.

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.9.0

Richard A.

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.9.0

Christina M.

no longer listed · 1.5.0 to 1.9.0

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.9.0Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.8.0
2025-01-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.6.0
2023-09-29 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2023-08-31 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2023-08-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.0
2023-04-11 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2023-01-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.0
2021-10-15 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2021-07-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-09
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-04
check issues were not corrected in time Does not use 'ggtern' conditionally

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-05-04
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-04
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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