R Observatory: Metrics for nichetools version 0.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nichetools

0.3.3Package record

Complementary Package to 'nicheROVER' and 'SIBER'

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin L. HlinaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions complementary to packages 'nicheROVER' and 'SIBER' allowing the user to extract Bayesian estimates from data objects created by the packages 'nicheROVER' and 'SIBER'. Please see the following publications for detailed methods on 'nicheROVER' and 'SIBER' Hansen et al. (2015) doi:10.1890/14-0235.1, Jackson et al. (2011) <do i:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01806.x>, and Layman et al. (2007) doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[42:CSIRPF]2.0.CO;2, respectfully.

Install

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

install.packages("nichetools", 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("benjaminhlina/nichetools")

Development version from benjaminhlina/nichetools. 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-nichetools

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-nichetools

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-nichetools

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: 9.6 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
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.3

READMEYes · 305 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.3.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Using {nichetools HTML
Using {nichetools HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,531 · ~14/day · ~413/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41030 days

1K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

benjaminhlina/nichetools ↗Account: benjaminhlina

2Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

734Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · 734 commits · Last activity 2026-01-13

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-08-28 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/benjaminhlina/nichetools on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nichetools adds 47 packages (29 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, mclust 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

cli dplyr ellipse lifecycle nicheROVER purrr rlang SIBER tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

bayestestR ggplot2 ggdist ggtext ggh4x janitor knitr patchwork rjags rmarkdown stringr testthat viridis

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 (1)

Benjamin L. Hlina

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2024)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.3Latest
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2026-01-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.2
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2024-09-30 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2024-09-06 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
create_comparisons, extract_group_metrics, extract_layman, extract_similarities
0.2.0
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2024-06-07
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-07
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 5 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("nichetools")

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

It points to 10.1890/14-0235.1, 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01806.x, 10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[42:csirpf]2.0.co;2.

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 nichetools version 0.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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