Description
Understanding the drivers of microbial diversity is an important frontier of microbial ecology, and investigating the diversity of samples from microbial ecosystems is a common step in any microbiome analysis. 'breakaway' is the premier package for statistical analysis of microbial diversity. 'breakaway' implements the latest and greatest estimates of species richness, described in Willis and Bunge (2015) <doi:10.1111/biom.12332>, Willis et al. (2017) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well as the most commonly used estimates, including the objective Bayes approach described in Barger and Bunge (2010) <doi:10.1214/10-BA527>.
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Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
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Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
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Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
ERROR 11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 12, 2026
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
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Package required but not available: ‘phyloseq’ See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 11, 2026
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
ERROR 11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Amy D Willis <adwillis@uw.edu>’ The Description field contains <doi:10.1111/rssc.12206>, and Willis (2016) <arXiv:1604.02598>, as well Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
package dependencies
Package required but not available: ‘phyloseq’ See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.