popbio

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Construction and Analysis of Matrix Population Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Chris StubbenFirst published 2007-02-1623 releasesCRAN page ↗

Construct and analyze projection matrix models from a demography study of marked individuals classified by age or stage. The package covers methods described in Matrix Population Models by Caswell (2001) and Quantitative Conservation Biology by Morris and Doak (2002).

Install

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

install.packages("popbio", 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-popbio

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

# 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-popbio

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

Health

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Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 70%

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Brook Milligan

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Chris Stubben

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.8

Patrick Nantel

no longer listed · 1.1 to 2.8

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-02-16
Total releases: 23 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 36 KB / 14 files
Download size: 124 KB
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