R Observatory: Metrics for aIc version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aIc

1.0Package record

Testing for Compositional Pathologies in Datasets

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Greg GloorCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A set of tests for compositional pathologies. Tests for coherence of correlations with aIc.coherent() as suggested by (Erb et al. (2020) doi:10.1016/j.acags.2020.100026), compositional dominance of distance with aIc.dominant(), compositional perturbation invariance with aIc.perturb() as suggested by (Aitchison (1992) doi:10.1007/BF00891269) and singularity of the covariation matrix with aIc.singular(). Currently tests five data transformations: prop, clr, TMM, TMMwsp, and RLE from the R packages 'ALDEx2', 'edgeR' and 'DESeq2' (Fernandes et al (2014) doi:10.1186/2049-2618-2-15, Anders et al. (2013)doi:10.1038/nprot.2013.099).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("aIc", 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("ggloor/aIc")

Development version from ggloor/aIc. 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-aic

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Greg Gloor <ggloor@uwo.ca>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Greg",
                    family = "Gloor",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "ggloor@uwo.ca")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-10
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-05-03
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

aIc: am I compositional?

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,159 · ~10/day · ~310/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33330 days

1.1K90 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on218 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ggloor/aic ↗Account: ggloor

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

28Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 28 commits · Last activity 2024-01-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-07-19 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/ggloor/aic on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aIc adds 36 packages (21 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB. 2 more not on CRAN are not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

matrixcalc zCompositions shiny edgeR ALDEx2 vegan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

BiocStyle knitr rmarkdown

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 (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Greg Gloor

Maintainer since 1.0 (2022)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0Latest
record
2022-10-04 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-04
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.8 MB / 6 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Appears in task views

Compositional Data Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("aIc")

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for aIc version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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