R Observatory: Metrics for statforbiology version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

statforbiology

1.0.2Package record

Data Analyses in Agriculture and Biology

0packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea OnofriCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Contains several tools for nonlinear regression analyses and general data analysis in biology and agriculture. Contains also datasets for practicing and teaching purposes. Supports the blog: Onofri (2024) "Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians" https://www.statforbiology.com and the book: Onofri (2024) "Experimental Methods in Agriculture" https://www.statforbiology.com/_statbookeng/. The blog is a collection of short articles aimed at improving the efficiency of communication between biologists and statisticians, as pointed out in Kozak (2016) doi:10.1590/0103-9016-2015-0399, spreading a better awareness of the potential usefulness, beauty and limitations of biostatistic.

Changes in 1.0.2

2024-23-05: Added 'plotRes()' function
2024-07-02: Corrected a buglet on 'NLS.LL2' self starter function.
2024-07-02: Added argument 'encoding' to the 'getAgroData()' function.
2024-07-02: Corrected a buglet on the 'gnlht' method, that prevented the use of named vectors
2024-07-02: Corrected some inconsistencies with package anchors in documentation files
2024-07-01: Package ready for submission; R CMD check gives no warning, errors or notes
2024-03-01: Created the package and started moving all functions and materials from the defunct package ‘aomisc’

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("statforbiology", 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("OnofriAndreaPG/statforbiology")

Development version from OnofriAndreaPG/statforbiology. 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-statforbiology

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-statforbiology

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-statforbiology

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: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-16
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-12
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 77 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 43
Examples that run: 100%43 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 56%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,786 · ~18/day · ~542/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37130 days

1.1K90 days

6.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

onofriandreapg/statforbiology ↗Account: OnofriAndreaPG

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

14Commits

1Commit identities

14 commits · Last activity 2025-12-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-09-13 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/onofriandreapg/statforbiology on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing statforbiology adds 74 packages (36 with compiled code, 72 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5drc

Imports (12)

ggplot2 tidyr carnlmeemmeansmethodsMASSstatsdrcte multcomputilsmultcompView

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Andrea Onofri

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.9 (2024)

Releases (2)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2Latest
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2025-09-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plotRes
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.9
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2024-10-21
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-21
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 1.7 KB / 4 files
Download size: 71 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("statforbiology")

Format

Onofri, A. (2025). statforbiology: Data Analyses in Agriculture and Biology (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.statforbiology

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 statforbiology version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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