R Observatory: Metrics for KLINK version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

KLINK

1.2.2Package record

Kinship Analysis with Linked Markers

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Magnus Dehli VigelandCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A 'shiny' application for forensic kinship testing, based on the 'pedsuite' R packages. 'KLINK' is closely aligned with the (non-R) software 'Familias' and 'FamLink', but offers several unique features, including visualisations and automated report generation. The calculation of likelihood ratios supports pairs of linked markers, and all common mutation models. The program is described in Vigeland and Gilfillan (2026) doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2026.103578.

Install

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

install.packages("KLINK", 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("magnusdv/KLINK")

Development version from magnusdv/KLINK. 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-klink

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-KLINK

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-KLINK

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

READMEYes · 124 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.2.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%9 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 70%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,733 · ~9/day · ~286/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34130 days

92590 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on84 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

magnusdv/klink ↗Account: magnusdv

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

259Commits

1Commit identities

forensic-geneticskinship-testingpedsuiteshiny

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 259 commits · Last activity 2026-10-23 · Default branch at 1.3.1, ahead of CRAN 1.2.2 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-07-14 · 82026-08-04 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/magnusdv/klink on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing KLINK adds 82 packages (38 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, gt 3.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (15)

forrel gt norSTR openxlsx pedFamilias pedmut pedprobr pedtools scales shiny (>= 1.9.0)shinyBS shinydashboard shinyjs verbalisr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Magnus Dehli Vigeland

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.1 (2023)

Releases (9)

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1.2.2Latest
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2026-08-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0
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2026-04-21 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2025-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
addTotals, getTotals, loadMap, map50
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2
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2024-09-03 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2024-08-19 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2024-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getLinkedPairs, parseXML
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.3
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2024-04-05 · diff ↗
0.7.2
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2023-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
launchApp, loadFamFile, markerSummary, writeResult
0.6.1
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2023-08-30
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-30
Total releases: 9 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 111 KB / 3 files
Download size: 491 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("KLINK")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1016/j.fsigen.2026.103578.

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 KLINK version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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