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Fit row-column association models with the negative binomial distribution for the microbiome

v1.28.0 · Package record · software · GPL-2

Release Lineage

Entered 3.9 · May 3, 2019

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 15 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Combine ideas of log-linear analysis of contingency table, flexible response function estimation and empirical Bayes dispersion estimation for explorative visualization of microbiome datasets. The package includes unconstrained as well as constrained analysis. In addition, diagnostic plot to detect lack of fit are available.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

69 10 exported

Complexity

5.7 avg / 87 max

Call network

69 nodes / 88 edges

Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

8,389

Files

157

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 4,481 (53.4%)Tests 196 (2.3%)Docs 3,040 (36.2%)Vignettes 672 (8%)

API

Exported functions

12

Internal functions

59

Recent export changes

v3.9+8 RCM, RCM_NB, addOrthProjection +5 more
v3.22+2 buildConfMat, permanova

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.04

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

100%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

6.7%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.5.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

15

First release

2019-05-02

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

3

LOC over versions

v3.9: 7,179 LOCv3.10: 7,179 LOCv3.11: 7,179 LOCv3.12: 8,074 LOCv3.13: 8,074 LOCv3.14: 8,074 LOCv3.15: 8,208 LOCv3.16: 8,208 LOCv3.17: 8,208 LOCv3.18: 8,208 LOCv3.19: 8,208 LOCv3.20: 8,208 LOCv3.21: 8,208 LOCv3.22: 8,389 LOCv3.23: 8,389 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
README· In the Bioconductor git repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publication
Help pages
70
Examples that run
100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
92%
Documented parameters
92%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0% with a bibliography file

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/centerforstatistics-ugent/rcm on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow
Docs source (2)
README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-17

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1
NameClassSizeAlso in
Zeller–––

All of RCM's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Stijn Hawinkel

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

People

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RCM version 1.28.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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