spbal: Spatially Balanced Sampling Algorithms

Encapsulates a number of spatially balanced sampling algorithms, namely, Balanced Acceptance Sampling (equal, unequal, seed point, panels), Halton frames (for discretizing a continuous resource), Halton Iterative Partitioning (equal probability), Simple Random Sampling, Dynamic Assignment Sampling and Doubly balanced Dynamic Assignment Sampling. Robertson, B. L., Brown, J. A., McDonald, T. and Jaksons, P. (2013) <doi:10.1111/biom.12059>. Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004>. Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2018) <doi:10.1007/s10651-018-0406-6>. Robertson, B. L., van Dam-Bates, P. and Gansell, O. (2021a) <doi:10.1007/s10651-020-00481-1>. Robertson, B. L., Davies, P., Gansell, O., van Dam-Bates, P., McDonald, T. (2025) <doi:10.1111/anzs.12435>. Robertson, B.L., Price, C.J., Reale, M., Davies, P. (2026) <doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujag011>. Robertson, B.L., Price, C.J., Reale, M., Davies, P. (2026) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smag021>.

Version: 1.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: units, sf, Rcpp (≥ 1.0.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppThread
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), bookdown, ggplot2, gridExtra, reshape2
Published: 2026-10-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.spbal
Author: Phil Davies [aut, cre], Blair Robertson [aut], Paul van Dam-Bates [aut], Oliver Gansell [aut]
Maintainer: Phil Davies <philip.davies at canterbury.ac.nz>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: C++17
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: spbal results

Documentation:

Reference manual: spbal.html , spbal.pdf
Vignettes: DAS and doubleDAS User Guide (source, R code)
spbal - Spatially Balanced Sampling (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: spbal_1.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: spbal_1.0.1.zip, r-release: spbal_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: spbal_1.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: spbal archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: rLakeHabitat

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