dsm

2.3.4

Density Surface Modelling of Distance Sampling Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Laura MarshallFirst published 2012-11-2418 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Density surface modelling of line transect data. A Generalized Additive Model-based approach is used to calculate spatially-explicit estimates of animal abundance from distance sampling (also presence/absence and strip transect) data. Several utility functions are provided for model checking, plotting and variance estimation.

Install

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

install.packages("dsm", 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("DistanceDevelopment/dsm")

Development version from DistanceDevelopment/dsm. 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-dsm

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-dsm

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-dsm

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

19.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 55%
References docs: 13%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ distancedevelopment/dsm

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15Open issues

2Open PRs

10Releases

554Commits

8Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 554 commits · Last activity 2026-06-24

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0mgcvmrds numDeriv

Imports (4)

nlmeggplot2 plyr statmod

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

Distance sp tweedie testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Laura Marshall

Maintainer

Authors (1)

David L. Miller

Author

Contributors (6)

Mark V. Bravington

Contributor

Louise Burt

Contributor

Megan Ferguson

Contributor · added in 2.3.2

Sharon Hedley

Contributor · added in 2.3.2

Natalie Kelly

Contributor · added in 2.3.4

Eric Rexstad

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (5)

Sharon Hedley.

no longer listed · 2.0 to 2.3.1

Natalie Kelly.

no longer listed · 2.3.2 to 2.3.3

Bravington

no longer listed · 2.3.4

Marshall

no longer listed · 2.3.4

Miller

no longer listed · 2.3.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-11-24
Total releases: 18 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 42 KB / 1 file
Download size: 118 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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