leastcostpath

2.0.13

Modelling Pathways and Movement Potential Within a Landscape

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Overview

About

Maintained by Joseph LewisFirst published 2020-03-258 releasesCRAN page ↗

Calculates cost surfaces based on slope to be used when modelling pathways and movement potential within a landscape (Lewis, 2021) doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09522-w.

Install

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

install.packages("leastcostpath", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-leastcostpath

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-leastcostpath

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-leastcostpath

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Documentation

READMEYes · 386 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 14%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (10)

terra sf igraph foreach gstatmethodsstatsMatrix (>= 1.4-1)paralleldoParallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

RRgeo evacpath

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Joseph Lewis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Joseph Lewis

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-06-03
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-15
installation issues were not corrected in time
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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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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-25
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 160 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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