R Observatory: Metrics for DiversityStats version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DiversityStats

0.1.0Package record

Diversity Indices with Statistical Inference

1packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by J. AravindCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.1.0

First release

From NEWS.md in the release

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK6 OK2026-05-05

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 607 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,637 · ~6/day · ~169/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26030 days

86490 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on36 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

aravind-j/diversitystats ↗Account: aravind-j

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

31Commits

2Commit identities

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

31 commits · Last activity 2026-06-07 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-04-30 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/aravind-j/diversitystats on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-07

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DiversityStats adds 24 packages (13 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, mathjaxr 3.0 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (8)

bootdplyr mathjaxr multcompView Rdpackstatstidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

clusterEvaluateCore ggplot2 knitr pander rmarkdown vegan

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SampleCore

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

J. Aravind

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Suman Roy

Author

Anju Mahendru Singh

Author

ICAR-NBGPR

Copyright holder

https://nbpgr.org.in/

Releases (1)

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

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 495 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DiversityStats")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DiversityStats version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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