R Observatory: Metrics for ValidationExplorer version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

ValidationExplorer

0.1.1

Simulation-Based Tools for Bioacoustic Study Design

0packages depend

430downloads / year

81.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jacob OramFirst published 2026-06-081 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Many bioacoustic data workflows rely on manual review (i.e., validation) of a subset of call files to provide information to statistical models that account for misclassification by automated algorithms. Because manual review can be prohibitively expensive, simulation can be a valuable tool to aid the design of studies that use validation. This package provides user-friendly functions to reduce the programming burden of simulation studies that compare validation sampling designs. Simulations assume the count-detection model, which is a realistic model for bioacoustic data, especially for bats. For more information, see Oram et al. (2025) doi:10.1214/25-AOAS2096.

Install

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

install.packages("ValidationExplorer", 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("j-oram/ValidationExplorer")

Development version from j-oram/ValidationExplorer. 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-validationexplorer

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-ValidationExplorer

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-ValidationExplorer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.49

81.1%

Coverage · measured lines

88%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 545 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

430

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,214 · ~1/day · ~36/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ j-oram/validationexplorer

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

211Commits

7Contributors

211 commits · Last activity 2026-05-29

Stars over time

2024-02-06 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/j-oram/validationexplorer on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0nimble

Imports (11)

coda dplyr ggplot2 magrittr purrr rlang rstan stringr tibble tidyr viridis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jacob Oram

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (4)

Jacob Oram

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Katharine Banner

Author

Kathryn Irvine

Author

Christian Stratton

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Jacob Oram

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.1Latest
2026-06-08 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 154 KB / 3 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("ValidationExplorer")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ValidationExplorer

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{ValidationExplorer,
  title  = {ValidationExplorer: Simulation-Based Tools for Bioacoustic Study Design},
  author = {Oram, Jacob and Banner, Katharine and Irvine, Kathryn and Stratton, Christian},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 0.1.1},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.ValidationExplorer},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ValidationExplorer}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryValidationExplorer,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {ValidationExplorer} version 0.1.1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ValidationExplorer},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ValidationExplorer version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ValidationExplorer

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for ValidationExplorer version 0.1.1
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ValidationExplorer
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ValidationExplorer.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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