R Observatory: Metrics for FossilSim version 2.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FossilSim

2.4.4

Simulation and Plots for Fossil and Taxonomy Data

4packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joëlle Barido-SottaniFirst published 2018-07-2813 releasesCRAN page ↗

Simulating and plotting taxonomy and fossil data on phylogenetic trees under mechanistic models of speciation, preservation and sampling.

Install

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

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

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

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-fossilsim

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-FossilSim

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-FossilSim

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 144 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,444 · ~17/day · ~504/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23930 days

92690 days

6K1 year

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Also on143 r2u15 autocran48 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

apemethodsrlang tidytree

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

paleotree knitr rmarkdown devtools TreeSim treeio ggtree ggfun ggplot2 ggrepel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

FossilSimShiny MorphSim StratPal admtools

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.4

Authors (5)

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.4

Joseph O'Reilly

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.4

Walker Pett

Author, Copyright holder

Ugnė Stolz

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.0

Rachel Warnock

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (5)

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.4

Joseph O'Reilly

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.4

Walker Pett

Author, Copyright holder

Ugnė Stolz

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.4.0

Rachel Warnock

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Joelle Barido-Sottani

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 2.4.3

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.4.4Latest
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2.4.3
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2.3.3
2024-04-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.3.2
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.3.1
2022-07-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-04-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.0
2021-04-05 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2.1.0
2018-11-16 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2018-07-28
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-28
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Paleontology Phylogenetics

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citation("FossilSim")

Format

Barido-Sottani, J., O'Reilly, J., Pett, W., Stolz, U., & Warnock, R. (2026). FossilSim: Simulation and Plots for Fossil and Taxonomy Data (Version 2.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FossilSim

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FossilSim version 2.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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