Description
Efficient phylogenetic analyses on massive phylogenies comprising up to millions of tips. Functions include pruning, rerooting, calculation of most-recent common ancestors, calculating distances from the tree root and calculating pairwise distances. Calculation of phylogenetic signal and mean trait depth (trait conservatism), ancestral state reconstruction and hidden character prediction of discrete characters, simulating and fitting models of trait evolution, fitting and simulating diversification models, dating trees, comparing trees, and reading/writing trees in Newick format. Citation: Louca, Stilianos and Doebeli, Michael (2017) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701>.
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| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
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Check History
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
installed package size
installed size is 22.5Mb
sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
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libs 19.5Mb
installed package size
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installed package size
installed size is 22.5Mb
sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
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installed package size
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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
installed package size
installed size is 22.5Mb
sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
R 2.0Mb
libs 19.5Mb
installed package size
installed size is 23.0Mb
sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
R 2.0Mb
libs 20.0Mb
Code
Structure
Lines of code
74,632
Files
299
Compiled share
50.8%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
141
Internal functions
296
Recent export changes
Testing & CI
Has tests
No
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
CI present
No
CI type
[]
PR gated
No
Docs
Return-value doc rate
100%
\dontrun example ratio
26.4%
Roxygen coverage
100%
Has pkgdown
No
NEWS present
No
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
12.5%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
–
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL (>= 2)
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
45
First release
2017-05-20
Latest release
2026-01-21
Avg cadence
55 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
6
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.