USE

0.1.6

Uniform Sampling of the Environmental Space

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5Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Daniele Da ReFirst published 2025-09-151 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for uniform sampling of the environmental space, designed to assist species distribution modellers in gathering ecologically relevant pseudo-absence data. The method ensures balanced representation of environmental conditions and helps reduce sampling bias in model calibration. Based on the framework described by Da Re et al. (2023) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14209.

Install

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

install.packages("USE", 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("danddr/USE")

Development version from danddr/USE. 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-use

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-USE

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-USE

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

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-04-07
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OK2026-03-31
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ERROR2026-03-28
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OK2026-03-21
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ERROR2026-03-19
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OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 112 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Rank #8,336 · ~14/day · ~416/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ danddr/use

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2Contributors

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53 commits · Last activity 2025-09-06

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/danddr/use on 2026-07-19.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (6)

sfparallelterra ks ggplot2 cowplot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr tidyterra

Enhances (0)

none

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Daniele Da Re

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Daniele Da Re

Author, Maintainer

Manuele Bazzichetto

Author

Enrico Tordoni

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.6Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-15
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 360 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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