R Observatory: Metrics for boral version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

boral

2.0.3Package record

Bayesian Ordination and Regression AnaLysis

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Francis K.C. HuiCRAN page ↗

Bayesian approaches for analyzing multivariate data in ecology. Estimation is performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods via Three. JAGS types of models may be fitted: 1) With explanatory variables only, boral fits independent column Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) to each column of the response matrix; 2) With latent variables only, boral fits a purely latent variable model for model-based unconstrained ordination; 3) With explanatory and latent variables, boral fits correlated column GLMs with latent variables to account for any residual correlation between the columns of the response matrix.

Install

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

install.packages("boral", 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-boral

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-boral

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-boral

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.0.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 30includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 27%8 run in a plain check · 20 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 60%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,683 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56930 days

1.4K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on105 r2u29 autocran51 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing boral adds 19 packages (12 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, R2WinBUGS 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

coda

Imports (11)

abind corpcor fishModgraphicsgrDeviceslifecycleMASSmvtnorm R2jags reshape2stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

mvabund corrplot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

jSDM

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Francis K.C. Hui

Author, Maintainer since 0.4 (2014)

Wade Blanchard

Author · added in 1.9

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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with contributions from Wafe Blanchard

no longer listed · 1.6

with contributions from Wade Blanchard

no longer listed · 1.6.1 to 1.8.1

Hui

no longer listed · 2.0.3

Releases (26)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-25
Total releases: 26 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for boral version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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