R Observatory: Metrics for entropart version 1.6-16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

entropart

1.6-16

Entropy Partitioning to Measure Diversity

2packages depend

11.1Kdownloads / year

53.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric MarconFirst published 2013-09-1029 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

53.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 305 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 75%

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,838 · ~30/day · ~923/mo

Releases R versions

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11.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ericmarcon/entropart

10Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

428Commits

3Contributors

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428 commits · Last activity 2026-01-30 · +11.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ericmarcon/entropart on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

ape EntropyEstimation ggplot2 ggpubrgraphicsgrDevicesparallelreshape2 rlangstatstibbleutilsvegan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Eric Marcon

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Eric Marcon

Author, Maintainer

Bruno Herault

Author

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Marcon, E., & Herault, B. (2025). entropart: Entropy Partitioning to Measure Diversity (Version 1.6-16) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.entropart

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for entropart version 1.6-16 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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