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R packageboundaries, version1.3.1

A systematic approach to quantify the status of the terrestrialplanetary boundaries based on the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM)Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) hosted at the Potsdam Institute forClimate Impact Research (PIK). The supported planetary boundaries are"biosphere integrity", "land-system change", "bluewater", "greenwater" and"nitrogen flows".

calc_status() calculate the status of the boundaries based on 🌱LPJmL Simulations depending on ...

1. 🎛 Scenario configuration
2. 🌐 Spatial scale: global, sub-global, grid
3. 🕚 Time span and resolution
4. 📑 Methodological approach

and returns the status of each underlying control variable.

plot_status() visualize the 🌡 status of the 🌎 boundaries based on the calculated control variables either as a 🗺 map or a 📈 time series plot.

For installation of the most recent package version an additional repository has to be added in R:

options(repos= c(CRAN="@CRAN@",pik="https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/r/packages"))

The additional repository can be made available permanently by adding the line above to a file called.Rprofile stored in the home folder of your system (Sys.glob("~") in R returns the home directory).

After that the most recent version of the package can be installed usinginstall.packages:

install.packages("boundaries")

Package updates can be installed usingupdate.packages (make sure that the additional repository has been added before running that command):

update.packages()

The package comes with a vignette describing the basic functionality of the package and how to use it. You can load it with the following command (the package needs to be installed):

vignette("calc_and_plot_boundaries")# Calculate and plot boundaries

In case of questions / problems please contact Johanna Braunbraun@pik-potsdam.de.

To cite packageboundaries in publications use:

Braun J, Breier J, Stenzel F, Vanelli C (2025). "boundaries: Planetary Boundary Status based on LPJmL simulations." doi:10.5281/zenodo.11550559https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11550559, Version: 1.3.1,https://github.com/PIK-tess/boundaries.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Misc{, title = {boundaries: Planetary Boundary Status based on LPJmL simulations}, author = {Johanna Braun and Jannes Breier and Fabian Stenzel and Caterina Vanelli}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.11550559}, date = {2025-02-21}, year = {2025}, url = {https://github.com/PIK-tess/boundaries}, note = {Version: 1.3.1},}