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Benchmark of differential abundance methods on microbiome data

v1.18.0 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.14 · Oct 27, 2021

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 10 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Starting from a microbiome dataset (16S or WMS with absolute count values) it is possible to perform several analysis to assess the performances of many differential abundance detection methods. A basic and standardized version of the main differential abundance analysis methods is supplied but the user can also add his method to the benchmark. The analyses focus on 4 main aspects: i) the goodness of fit of each method's distributional assumptions on the observed count data, ii) the ability to control the false discovery rate, iii) the within and between method concordances, iv) the truthfulness of the findings if any apriori knowledge is given. Several graphical functions are available for result visualization.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

86 84 exported

Complexity

8.7 avg / 40 max

Call network

86 nodes / 61 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

19,259

Files

160

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 8,932 (46.4%)Tests 738 (3.8%)Docs 6,148 (31.9%)Vignettes 3,441 (17.9%)

API

Exported functions

84

Internal functions

2

Recent export changes

v3.21+2 DA_maaslin3, set_maaslin3
v3.19+2 DA_corncob, set_corncob

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.08

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.3.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

10

First release

2021-10-26

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

201 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

19

LOC over versions

v3.14: 16,493 LOCv3.15: 15,706 LOCv3.16: 16,060 LOCv3.17: 18,080 LOCv3.18: 18,108 LOCv3.19: 18,450 LOCv3.20: 18,450 LOCv3.21: 19,259 LOCv3.22: 19,259 LOCv3.23: 19,259 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 291 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
0%

Topics

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("benchdamic")
Calgaro, M., Risso, D., Romualdi, C., & Vitulo, N. (2026). benchdamic: Benchmark of differential abundance methods on microbiome data (Version 1.18.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/benchdamic

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for benchdamic version 1.18.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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