R Observatory: Metrics for compositions version 2.0-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

compositions

2.0-9Package record

Compositional Data Analysis

22packages dependsuggested by 4

217.4Kdownloads / year

37.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by K. Gerald van den BoogaartCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Provides functions for the consistent analysis of compositional data (e.g. portions of substances) and positive numbers (e.g. concentrations) in the way proposed by J. Aitchison and V. Pawlowsky-Glahn.

Install

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

install.packages("compositions", 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-compositions

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-compositions

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-compositions

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: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 2.0-9

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 213 (32 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%143 run in a plain check · 19 never run · 17 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 48%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

217.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #930 · ~596/day · ~18.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

13.7K30 days

44.5K90 days

217.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.4K r2u3 autocran52.3K conda_forge210 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing compositions adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 7.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: robustbase 2.2 MB, bayesm 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (9)

methodsutilsgrDevicesstatstensorA robustbase bayesmgraphicsMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

rgl combinat energy knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

22direct

4indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 20

Suggested by 4

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

emmeans aqp multimedia yaap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

K. Gerald van den Boogaart

Author, Maintainer since 0.9-10 (2005)

Matevz Bren

Author · added in 0.91-6

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado

Author · added in 1.40-2

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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with contributions of Matevz Bren

no longer listed · 0.9-11

Raimon Tolosana

no longer listed · 0.9-10 to 1.40-1

van den Boogaart

no longer listed · 2.0-9

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2005-06-10
Total releases: 24 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 201 KB / 31 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Appears in task views

Anomaly Detection Chemometrics and Computational Physics Compositional Data Analysis Probability Distributions

Cite

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citation("compositions")

Format

van den Boogaart, K. G., Bren, M., & Tolosana-Delgado, R. (2025). compositions: Compositional Data Analysis (Version 2.0-9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.compositions

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for compositions version 2.0-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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