dssd

1.0.3

Distance Sampling Survey Design

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8.7Kdownloads / year

58.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Laura MarshallFirst published 2019-08-0512 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates survey designs for distance sampling surveys. These designs can be assessed for various effort and coverage statistics. Once the user is satisfied with the design characteristics they can generate a set of transects to use in their distance sampling survey. Many of the designs implemented in this R package were first made available in our 'Distance' for Windows software and are detailed in Chapter 7 of Advanced Distance Sampling, Buckland et. al. (2008, ISBN-13: 978-0199225873). Find out more about estimating animal/plant abundance with distance sampling at https://distancesampling.org/.

Install

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

install.packages("dssd", 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/dssd")

Development version from DistanceDevelopment/dssd. 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-dssd

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-dssd

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

58.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 328 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

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Rank #5,449 · ~24/day · ~728/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ distancedevelopment/dssd

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4Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

452Commits

4Contributors

452 commits · Last activity 2025-09-16

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Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

sf ggplot2methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown tibble covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

dsims

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Laura Marshall

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Laura Marshall

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Rexstad Eric

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 12 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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