R Observatory: Metrics for hillR version 0.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hillR

0.5.2Package record

Diversity Through Hill Numbers

1packages dependsuggested by 1

11.1Kdownloads / year

64.6%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daijiang LiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity measures through Hill Numbers proposed by Chao, Chiu and Jost (2014) doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091540.

Install

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

install.packages("hillR", 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("daijiang/hillR")

Development version from daijiang/hillR. 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-hillr

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-hillR

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-hillR

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Daijiang Li <daijianglee@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Daijiang",
                    family = "Li",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "daijianglee@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-10-17
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-01

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-30
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.2

READMEYes · 240 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.5.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%6 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,004 · ~30/day · ~926/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

81030 days

2.3K90 days

11.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on113 r2u4 autocran2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

daijiang/hillr ↗Account: daijiang

35Stars

13Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

132Commits

8Commit identities

rhill-numbersbiodiversity

132 commits · Last activity 2025-11-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.0, ahead of CRAN 0.5.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-06 · 342026-09-16 · 35

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/daijiang/hillr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hillR adds 53 packages (31 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ncbit 9.4 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (6)

FD plyr ade4 ape tibble geiger

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat covr betapart

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

chemodiv

Suggests, most downloaded first

phylospatial

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Daijiang Li

Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2018)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.2Latest
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2023-08-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-03-02
0.5.1
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2021-03-02 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-01
check problems were not corrected in time
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2020-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.0
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2018-11-19
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 19 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("hillR")

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

It points to 10.21105/joss.01041.

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 hillR version 0.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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