R Observatory: Metrics for biotools version 4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biotools

4.3

Tools for Biometry and Applied Statistics in Agricultural Science

4packages depend

53.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Anderson Rodrigo da SilvaFirst published 2014-02-1213 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools designed to perform and evaluate cluster analysis (including Tocher's algorithm), discriminant analysis and path analysis (standard and under collinearity), as well as some useful miscellaneous tools for dealing with sample size and optimum plot size calculations. A test for seed sample heterogeneity is now available. Mantel's permutation test can be found in this package. A new approach for calculating its power is implemented. biotools also contains tests for genetic covariance components. Heuristic approaches for performing non-parametric spatial predictions of generic response variables and spatial gene diversity are implemented.

Install

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

install.packages("biotools", 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("arsilva87/biotools")

Development version from arsilva87/biotools. 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-biotools

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-biotools

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-biotools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

96%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 240 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 59%

Downloads

53.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,255 · ~147/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ arsilva87/biotools

2Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

134Commits

1Contributors

rstatisticscluster-analysisr-packagetochermultivariate-analysis

License GPL-3.0 · 134 commits · Last activity 2025-04-02

Stars over time

2023-08-09 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/arsilva87/biotools on 2026-08-16.

Research and citation (1)

JOSS paper

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

MASS

Imports (6)

utilsstatsgraphicsbootgrDevicesdatasets

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

soilphysics tkrplottcltkrpanellatticeSpatialEpi knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

MultivariateAnalysis smsets SampleCore micompr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Anderson Rodrigo da Silva

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Anderson Rodrigo da Silva

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

da Silva

no longer listed · 4.0 to 4.3

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-02-12
Total releases: 13 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 56 KB / 5 files
Download size: 85 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Agricultural Science

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for biotools version 4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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