TR8

0.9.23

A Tool for Downloading Functional Traits Data for Plant Species

1packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

1.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gionata BocciFirst published 2014-08-2614 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Plant ecologists often need to collect "traits" data about plant species which are often scattered among various databases: TR8 contains a set of tools which take care of automatically retrieving some of those functional traits data for plant species from publicly available databases (The Ecological Flora of the British Isles, LEDA traitbase, Ellenberg values for Italian Flora, Mycorrhizal intensity databases, BROT, PLANTS, Jepson Flora Project). The TR8 name, inspired by "car plates" jokes, was chosen since it both reminds of the main object of the package and is extremely short to type.

Install

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

install.packages("TR8", 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("GioBo/TR8")

Development version from GioBo/TR8. 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-tr8

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-TR8

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-TR8

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

1.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 59%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

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Rank #12,076 · ~10/day · ~312/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ giobo/tr8

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290Commits

4Contributors

290 commits · Last activity 2024-09-22 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

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Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0methodsstatsutils

Imports (8)

RCurl XML dplyr plyr reshape rappdirs readxl shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Gionata Bocci

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gionata Bocci

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-04-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-01-24
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-26
Total releases: 14 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 271 KB / 9 files
Download size: 904 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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