R Observatory: Metrics for entropart version 1.6-16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

entropart

1.6-16Package record

Entropy Partitioning to Measure Diversity

1packages dependsuggested by 1

8.5Kdownloads / year

53.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric MarconCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Measurement and partitioning of diversity, based on Tsallis entropy, following Marcon and Herault (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i08. 'entropart' provides functions to calculate alpha, beta and gamma diversity of communities, including phylogenetic and functional diversity. Estimation-bias corrections are available.

Changes in 1.6-16

External changes

Replaced Geom*$default_aes by their values for compatibility with ggplot2 3.6.0 (PR #3 by @teunbrand)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("entropart", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("EricMarcon/entropart")

Development version from EricMarcon/entropart. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-entropart

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-entropart

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-entropart

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: 5.3 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 1.6-16

READMEYes · 305 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.6-16Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 63 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%54 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 75%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to entropart HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,652 · ~23/day · ~704/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72030 days

1.8K90 days

8.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u4 autocran147 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ericmarcon/entropart ↗Account: EricMarcon

10Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

428Commits

3Commit identities

diversityspeciesmeasureentropy-partitioningestimatorbiodiversity

428 commits · Last activity 2026-01-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-10 · 92026-07-28 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ericmarcon/entropart on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-30

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing entropart adds 75 packages (39 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

ape EntropyEstimation ggplot2 ggpubrgraphicsgrDevicesparallelreshape2 rlangstatstibbleutilsvegan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ade4 knitr pkgdown rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

inpdfr

Suggests, most downloaded first

cati

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Eric Marcon

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.1 (2013)

Bruno Herault

Author

Releases (29)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-09-10
Total releases: 29 / 13 yrs
License: GNU General Public License
Bundled data: 653 KB / 1 file
Download size: 856 KB

Appears in task views

Phylogenetics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("entropart")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v067.i08.

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 entropart version 1.6-16 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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