R Observatory: Metrics for biotic version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biotic

0.1.2Package record

Calculation of Freshwater Biotic Indices

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

55.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dr Rob BriersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Calculates a range of UK freshwater invertebrate biotic indices including BMWP, Whalley, WHPT, Habitat-specific BMWP, AWIC, LIFE and PSI.

Install

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

install.packages("biotic", 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("robbriers/biotic")

Development version from robbriers/biotic. 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-biotic

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-biotic

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-biotic

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

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

Maintainer: ‘Dr Rob Briers <r.briers@napier.ac.uk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Dr", "Rob"),
                    family = "Briers",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "r.briers@napier.ac.uk")
as necessary.

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Vignette for 'biotic' package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,732 · ~9/day · ~259/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25630 days

82090 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.4K r2u15 autocran142 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robbriers/biotic ↗Account: robbriers

2Stars

1Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

80Commits

2Commit identities

80 commits · Last activity 2022-04-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-01-14 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robbriers/biotic on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing biotic adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (1)

stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat 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)

Dr Rob Briers

Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2016)

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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.2Latest
record
2016-04-20 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-20
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1.7 KB / 3 files
Download size: 30 KB

Appears in task views

Hydrological Data and Modeling

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("biotic")

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

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 biotic version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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