microPop

1.6

Process-Based Modelling of Microbial Populations

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Overview

About

Maintained by Helen KettleFirst published 2017-03-298 releasesCRAN page ↗

Modelling interacting microbial populations - example applications include human gut microbiota, rumen microbiota and phytoplankton. Solves a system of ordinary differential equations to simulate microbial growth and resource uptake over time. This version contains network visualisation functions.

Install

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

install.packages("microPop", 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-micropop

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-microPop

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-microPop

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 23.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-08
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,405 · ~8/day · ~244/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

deSolve visNetwork

Imports (2)

testthatmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown R.rsp knitr webshot

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,428 (62%)Rd 2,368 (27%)Vignettes 940 (11%)Other 45 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 6.0 median / 31 max
Test cases: 46 / 0.32 per code line
Documented parameters: 100%

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

56 49 exported

Complexity

7.9 avg / 31 max

Call network

56 nodes / 37 edges

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Helen Kettle

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Helen Kettle

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-29
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Bundled data: 8.9 KB / 25 files
Download size: 778 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet