Ben Bolker

42 packages On CRAN since Oct 2002 (23 years) · last active 3 weeks ago 0000-0002-2127-0443

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lme4

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reformulas

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emmeans

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vegan

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ape

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gplots

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plotrix

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Recent Activity

rncl updated v0.8.10 Aug 4, 2026

An Interface to the Nexus Class Library

sfsmisc updated v1.1-25 Aug 3, 2026

Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich

foghorn updated v1.6.2 Jul 16, 2026

Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal

lme4 updated v2.0-6 Jul 16, 2026

Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4

emmeans updated v2.0.4 Jul 15, 2026

Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means

sdmTMB updated v1.1.0 Jul 3, 2026

Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'

fortunes updated v1.5-5 Jun 26, 2026

R Fortunes

dotwhisker updated v0.8.6 Jun 24, 2026

Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results

power.nb new v0.1.0 Jun 15, 2026

Power and Sample Size Calculation for Differential Abundance Microbiome Studies

vegan updated v2.7-5 May 25, 2026

Community Ecology Package

Maintained Packages

10 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
lme4	Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4	590.7K	2.0-6
gtools	Various R Programming Tools	369.9K	3.9.5
reformulas	Machinery for Processing Random Effect Formulas	367K	0.4.4
broom.mixed	Tidying Methods for Mixed Models	45.2K	0.2.9.7
bbmle	Tools for General Maximum Likelihood Estimation	30.6K	1.0.25.1
emdbook	Support Functions and Data for "Ecological Models and Data"	12.3K	1.3.14
margins	Marginal Effects for Model Objects	11.3K	0.3.28
prediction	Tidy, Type-Safe 'prediction()' Methods	10.5K	0.3.18
MEMSS	Data Sets from Mixed-Effects Models in S	8.4K	0.9-4
mbest	Moment-Based Estimation for Hierarchical Models	1.3K	0.6.1

Co-authored Packages

11 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
vegan	Community Ecology Package	119.7K	2.7-5
ape	Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution	116.8K	5.8-1
gplots	Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data	98K	3.3.0
glmmTMB	Generalized Linear Mixed Models using Template Model Builder	46.5K	1.1.14
gmodels	Various R Programming Tools for Model Fitting	23.2K	2.19.1
afex	Analysis of Factorial Experiments	20.5K	1.5-1
rncl	An Interface to the Nexus Class Library	12.2K	0.8.10
mlmRev	Examples from Multilevel Modelling Software Review	10.9K	1.0-9
SASmixed	Data Sets from "SAS System for Mixed Models	1K	1.0-5
power.nb	Power and Sample Size Calculation for Differential Abundance Microbiome Studies	210	0.1.0
epigrowthfit	Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models of Epidemic Growth	173	0.15.4

Contributions

20 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
broom	Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles	487.5K	1.0.13
car	Companion to Applied Regression	392.3K	3.1-5
emmeans	Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means	145.1K	2.0.4
plotrix	Various Plotting Functions	69.3K	3.8-14
rgl	3D Visualization Using OpenGL	58.3K	1.3.36
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	41.5K	0.99.60
gdata	Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation	33.9K	3.0.1
sfsmisc	Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich	18.3K	1.1-25
foghorn	Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal	12K	1.6.2
blme	Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models	8.1K	1.0-7
ergm	Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks	7.6K	4.12.0
RLRsim	Exact (Restricted) Likelihood Ratio Tests for Mixed and Additive Models	6.3K	3.1-9
dotwhisker	Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results	5.1K	0.8.6
sdmTMB	Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'	3.3K	1.1.0
fortunes	R Fortunes	2.8K	1.5-5
metaplus	Robust Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression	2.4K	1.0-8
rmsb	Bayesian Regression Modeling Strategies	2.2K	1.1-2
stan4bart	Bayesian Additive Regression Trees with Stan-Sampled Parametric Extensions	311	0.0-12
stevemisc	Steve's Miscellaneous Functions	311	1.9.0
galamm	Generalized Additive Latent and Mixed Models	251	0.4.0

Other Roles

1 package

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
rstanarm	Bayesian Applied Regression Modeling via Stan	42.4K	2.32.2

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