R Observatory: Metrics for mecoturn version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mecoturn

0.3.1Package record

Decipher Microbial Turnover along a Gradient

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chi LiuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Two pipelines are provided to study microbial turnover along a gradient, including the beta diversity and microbial abundance change. The 'betaturn' class consists of the steps of community dissimilarity matrix generation, matrix conversion, differential test and visualization. The workflow of 'taxaturn' class includes the taxonomic abundance calculation, abundance transformation, abundance change summary, statistical analysis and visualization. Multiple statistical approaches can contribute to the analysis of microbial turnover.

Install

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

install.packages("mecoturn", 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("ChiLiubio/mecoturn")

Development version from ChiLiubio/mecoturn. 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-mecoturn

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-mecoturn

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-mecoturn

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: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,018 · ~11/day · ~320/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31430 days

91990 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on76 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

chiliubio/mecoturn ↗Account: ChiLiubio

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

39Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 39 commits · Last activity 2026-02-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.2, ahead of CRAN 0.3.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-11-06 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/chiliubio/mecoturn on 2026-10-22.

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mecoturn adds 101 packages (53 with compiled code, 96 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

R6 ggplot2 microeco GUniFrac magrittr ggpubr lmerTest betareg glmmTMB

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ape agricolae

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Chi Liu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Xiangzhen Li

Contributor

Minjie Yao

Contributor

Releases (4)

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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
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2023-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2023-02-23
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-23
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 685 KB / 1 file
Download size: 690 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mecoturn")

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

It points to 10.1093/femsec/fiaa255.

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 mecoturn version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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