R Observatory: Metrics for orchaRd version 2.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

orchaRd

2.2.1Package record

Visualizing Meta-Analyses with Orchard Plots and Prediction Intervals

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel NobleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generates prediction intervals and orchard plots for meta-analytic and meta-regression models fitted with the 'metafor' package. Orchard plots augment classic forest plots by displaying individual effect sizes together with group means and their confidence and prediction intervals, providing an enhanced visualization of meta-analytic data for ecology, evolution, and beyond. Methods are described in Nakagawa et al. (2023) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14152.

Install

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

install.packages("orchaRd", 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("daniel1noble/orchaRd")

Development version from daniel1noble/orchaRd. 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-orchard

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-orchaRd

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-orchaRd

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: 14.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-24

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.1

READMEYes · 464 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 112 (57 internal)
Examples that run: 0%21 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 12%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,592 · ~5/day · ~151/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53730 days

1.8K90 days

1.8K1 year

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Also on25 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

daniel1noble/orchard ↗Account: daniel1noble

22Stars

10Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

782Commits

7Commit identities

782 commits · Last activity 2026-08-29 · +4.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 25
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-24 · 202026-10-08 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/daniel1noble/orchard on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-04-18
Commits: 1 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-04-18
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 3 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.72 commits · Apr to May 2026
Claude Opus 4.81 commit · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing orchaRd adds 47 packages (18 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, metafor 4.8 MB, vipor 4.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (14)

ape dplyr emmeans ggbeeswarm ggplot2 latex2exp magrittrMASSmetafor progress rWishartstatstesterutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

broom glmmTMB gt knitr lme4 metadat moments patchwork PearsonDS purrr R.rsp rmarkdown testthat tibble

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 (2)

Daniel Noble

Author, Maintainer since 2.2.1 (2026)

Shinichi Nakagawa

Author

Releases (1)

2.2.1Latest
record
2026-07-23 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 217 KB / 7 files
Download size: 333 KB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("orchaRd")

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

It points to 10.1111/2041-210x.14152.

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 orchaRd version 2.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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