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phyloseq

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Handling and analysis of high-throughput microbiome census data

v1.56.0 · Package record · software · AGPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 2.10 · Apr 2, 2012

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 29 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

phyloseq provides a set of classes and tools to facilitate the import, storage, analysis, and graphical display of microbiome census data.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

155 109 exported

Complexity

3.6 avg / 49 max

Call network

155 nodes / 103 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

23,347

Files

217

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 11,945 (51.2%)Tests 1,716 (7.3%)Docs 7,787 (33.4%)Vignettes 1,899 (8.1%)

API

Exported functions

140

Internal functions

46

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.14

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

9

Dep constraint coverage

100%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.3.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

AGPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

29

First release

2012-09-12

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

17

LOC over versions

v2.10: 13,999 LOCv2.11: 16,352 LOCv2.12: 18,346 LOCv2.13: 19,918 LOCv2.14: 20,655 LOCv3.0: 21,847 LOCv3.1: 21,928 LOCv3.2: 22,157 LOCv3.3: 23,178 LOCv3.4: 23,185 LOCv3.5: 23,185 LOCv3.6: 23,163 LOCv3.7: 23,175 LOCv3.8: 23,175 LOCv3.9: 23,195 LOCv3.10: 23,195 LOCv3.11: 23,195 LOCv3.12: 23,195 LOCv3.13: 23,195 LOCv3.14: 23,195 LOCv3.15: 23,195 LOCv3.16: 23,195 LOCv3.17: 23,195 LOCv3.18: 23,195 LOCv3.19: 23,195 LOCv3.20: 23,195 LOCv3.21: 23,195 LOCv3.22: 23,347 LOCv3.23: 23,347 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
READMEYes · 197 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes
Help pages
132 (20 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
73%81 run in a plain check · 30 hold no code
Exported functions with examples
96%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
89%
Help pages citing references
14%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/joey711/phyloseq on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)
Travis CI (config file)
Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-02-14

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 12
NameClassSizeAlso in
GP_otu_table_rand_shortdata.frame499 × 30No other package
GlobalPatterns–––
enterotype–––
esophagus–––
gp500-uufdata.frame27 × 28No other package
gp500-wufdata.frame27 × 28No other package
gp500-wufudata.frame27 × 28No other package
gp500test.envdata.frame3,092 × 3No other package
master_mapdata.frame27 × 7No other package
rformat_dist_0.03data.frame14 × 5,277No other package
soilrep–––
study_gpdata.frame27 × 7No other package

All of phyloseq's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Paul J. McMurdie

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (42)

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for phyloseq version 1.56.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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