R Observatory: Metrics for poweRbal version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

poweRbal

0.1.0

Phylogenetic Tree Models and the Power of Tree Shape Statistics

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sophie KerstingFirst published 2024-06-283 releasesCRAN page ↗

The first goal of this package is to provide a multitude of tree models, i.e., functions that generate rooted binary trees with a given number of leaves. Second, the package allows for an easy evaluation and comparison of tree shape statistics by estimating their power to differentiate between different tree models. Please note that this R package was developed alongside the manuscript 'Tree balance in phylogenetic models' by S. J. Kersting, K. Wicke, and M. Fischer (2025) doi:10.1098/rstb.2023.0303, which provides further background and the respective mathematical definitions. This project was supported by the project ArtIGROW, which is a part of the WIR!-Alliance ArtIFARM – Artificial Intelligence in Farming funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (No. 03WIR4805).

Install

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

install.packages("poweRbal", 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-powerbal

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-poweRbal

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-poweRbal

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 65%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,759 · ~8/day · ~249/mo

Releases R versions

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18730 days

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

ape scales phytools treebalance R.utils memoise

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat diversitree

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Sophie Kersting

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Sophie Kersting

Author, Maintainer

Mareike Fischer

Author

Kristina Wicke

Author

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-04-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.0.1.1
2024-08-16 · diff ↗
0.0.0.3
2024-06-28
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-28
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 55 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Phylogenetics

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Format

Kersting, S., Fischer, M., & Wicke, K. (2026). poweRbal: Phylogenetic Tree Models and the Power of Tree Shape Statistics (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.poweRbal

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for poweRbal version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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