R Observatory: Metrics for Laterality version 0.9.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Laterality

0.9.5

Functions to Calculate Common Laterality Statistics in Primatology

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Overview

About

Maintained by Antony BorelFirst published 2012-10-136 releasesCRAN page ↗

Calculates and plots Handedness index (HI), absolute HI, mean HI and z-score which are commonly used indexes for the study of hand preference (laterality) in non-human primates.

Install

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

install.packages("Laterality", 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-laterality

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-Laterality

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-Laterality

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

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Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 43%

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Listed in earlier versions (3)

Borel A.

no longer listed · 0.9 to 0.9.5

Pouydebat E.

no longer listed · 0.9 to 0.9.5

Reghem E.

no longer listed · 0.9 to 0.9.5

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-13
Total releases: 6 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2.0)
Bundled data: 2.8 KB / 2 files
Download size: 15 KB
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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Laterality version 0.9.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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