R Observatory: Metrics for balance version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2021-07-31. Its history is shown below.

Reason: check problems were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 0.2.4, its last release before removal.

balance

0.2.4

Visualize Balances of Compositional Data

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Quinn3 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Balances have become a cornerstone of compositional data analysis. However, conceptualizing balances is difficult, especially for high-dimensional data. Most often, investigators visualize balances with "balance dendrograms". However, this visualization tool does not scale well for large data. This package provides an alternative scheme for visualizing balances, described in [Quinn (2018) DOI:10.12688/f1000research.15858.1]. This package also provides a method for principal balance analysis.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/balance/balance_0.2.4.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "balance_0.2.4.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.2.4) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("tpq/balance")

Development version from tpq/balance. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-balance

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 206 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 81%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.2

Imports (3)

methodsggplot2grid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

ape ggthemes knitr philr propr reshape2 rmarkdown robCompositions testthat vegan

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Thomas Quinn

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Thomas Quinn

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-31
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.4
2019-07-10 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.9
2018-12-10 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2018-10-12
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

Total releases: 3
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.2
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("balance")

Format

Quinn, T. (n.d.). balance: Visualize Balances of Compositional Data (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=balance

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for balance version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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