R Observatory: Metrics for DiversityStats version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DiversityStats

0.1.0

Diversity Indices with Statistical Inference

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1.2Kdownloads / year

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13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by J. AravindFirst published 2026-05-051 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing diversity from frequency/abundance count data. Implements a wide range of classical and entropy-based diversity indices, including Berger-Parker, Simpson (and related variants), Shannon, Brillouin, McIntosh, Margalef, Menhinick and Smith-Wilson. Supports permutation-based hypothesis tests for comparing groups with respect to diversity (global and pairwise comparisons), as well as confidence interval estimation using multiple bootstrap methods. Includes functionality for generating diversity profiles based on parametric families such as Hill numbers, Rényi entropy, and Tsallis entropy. The methods are applicable to ecological community data (species abundance counts) and genetic or phenotypic class frequency data.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DiversityStats", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("aravind-j/DiversityStats")

Development version from aravind-j/DiversityStats. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-diversitystats

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-DiversityStats

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DiversityStats

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-05
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 607 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,434 · ~3/day · ~104/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ aravind-j/diversitystats

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diversity-measureshill-numberpermutation-testrenyi-entropyshannon-entropytsallis-entropyberger-parkerbootstrap-ci

31 commits · Last activity 2026-06-07

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2026-04-30 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (8)

bootdplyr mathjaxr multcompView Rdpackstatstidyrutils

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SampleCore

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

J. Aravind

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

J. Aravind

Author, Maintainer

Suman Roy

Author

Anju Mahendru Singh

Author

Copyright holders (1)

ICAR-NBGPR

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-05-05 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-05
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DiversityStats")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DiversityStats version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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