R Observatory: Metrics for caper version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

caper

1.0.4Package record

Comparative Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R

6packages dependsuggested by 4

55.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David OrmeCRAN page ↗

Functions for performing phylogenetic comparative analyses.

Install

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

install.packages("caper", 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-caper

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-caper

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-caper

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  caper/R/pgls.R (.Names: 1)
  caper/inst/doc/caper.R (.Dim: 1, .Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMEYes · 45 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 29includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%23 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 52%

Vignettes (1)

Comparative analysis of phylogenetics and evolution in R PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

55.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,654 · ~153/day · ~4.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.7K30 days

13.5K90 days

55.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on513 r2u13 autocran2K conda_forge221 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing caper adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 4.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, ape 1.4 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10apeMASSmvtnorm

Imports (4)

statsgraphicsutilsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

xtable rmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 5

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pez motmot bivariatemaps invasible DAMOCLES mmodely

Suggests, most downloaded first

diversitree ecostats MPSEM prepR4pcm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

David Orme

Author, Maintainer since 0.4 (2011)

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 0.5

Thomas Petzoldt

Author

Gavin Thomas

Author

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-03
Total releases: 9 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 132 KB / 13 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Appears in task views

Phylogenetics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("caper")

Format

Orme, D., Freckleton, R., Fritz, S., Isaac, N., Pearse, W., Petzoldt, T., & Thomas, G. (2025). caper: Comparative Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.caper

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 caper version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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