virtualspecies

1.6.1

Generation of Virtual Species Distributions

1packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

41.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Boris LeroyFirst published 2014-09-2510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a framework for generating virtual species distributions, a procedure increasingly used in ecology to improve species distribution models. This package integrates the existing methodological approaches with the objective of generating virtual species distributions with increased ecological realism.

Install

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

install.packages("virtualspecies", 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("Farewe/virtualspecies")

Development version from Farewe/virtualspecies. 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-virtualspecies

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-virtualspecies

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-virtualspecies

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 15.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

41.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 76%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,000 · ~23/day · ~700/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ farewe/virtualspecies

19Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

145Commits

5Contributors

145 commits · Last activity 2025-10-12 · +5.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-10-14 · 172026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/farewe/virtualspecies on 2026-07-19.

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5terra

Imports (8)

ade4graphicsgrDevicesrnaturalearth rasterstatsutilsviridis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

LPDynR

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 6,170 (73%)Rd 2,283 (27%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S311

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 85 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

41%

Expression

39.9%

Tests / Examples

41.3% / 53% ex

Functions

42 17 exported

Complexity

11 avg / 85 max

Call network

42 nodes / 22 edges

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Lowest coverage

42 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
betaFun exp	1	0%
custnorm exp	1	0%
limitDistribution exp	34	0%
removeCollinearity exp	15	0%
synchroniseNA exp	5	0%
$.VSSampledPoints	2	0%

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Boris Leroy

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.1

Authors (1)

Boris Leroy

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.1

Contributors (5)

Celine Bellard

Contributor · added in 1.1

Franck Courchamp

Contributor · added in 1.1

Robin Delsol

Contributor · added in 1.4-4

Willson Gaul

Contributor · added in 1.4-4

Christine N. Meynard

Contributor · added in 1.1

Listed in earlier versions (4)

C. Bellard & F. Courchamp

no longer listed · 1.0

Boris Leroy with help from C. N. Meynard

no longer listed · 1.0

David M. Kaplan

no longer listed · 1.5

Meynard

no longer listed · 1.6.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-25
Total releases: 10 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 71 KB
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