virtualPollen

1.0.2

Simulating Pollen Curves from Virtual Taxa with Different Life and Niche Traits

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Overview

About

Maintained by Blas M. BenitoFirst published 2019-05-163 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools to generate virtual environmental drivers with a given temporal autocorrelation, and to simulate pollen curves at annual resolution over millennial time-scales based on these drivers and virtual taxa with different life traits and niche features. It also provides the means to simulate quasi-realistic pollen-data conditions by applying simulated accumulation rates and given depth intervals between consecutive samples.

Install

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

install.packages("virtualPollen", 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("BlasBenito/virtualPollen")

Development version from BlasBenito/virtualPollen. 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-virtualpollen

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-virtualPollen

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-virtualPollen

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 408 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ blasbenito/virtualpollen

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Dependencies

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5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

ggplot2 cowplot viridismgcvplyr tidyrstats

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-16
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 806 KB / 6 files
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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