R Observatory: Metrics for xegaPopulation version 1.0.0.16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xegaPopulation

1.0.0.16Package record

Genetic Population Level Functions

2packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

62.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas Geyer-SchulzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This collection of gene representation-independent functions implements the population layer of extended evolutionary and genetic algorithms and its support for the R-package 'xega' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=xega. The population layer consists of functions for initializing, logging, observing, evaluating a population of genes, as well as of computing the next population. For parallel evaluation of a population of genes 4 execution models - named Sequential, MultiCore, FutureApply, and Cluster - are provided. They are implemented by configuring the lapply() function. The execution model FutureApply can be externally configured as recommended by Bengtsson (2021) doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048. Configurable acceptance rules and cooling schedules (see Kirkpatrick, S., Gelatt, C. D. J, and Vecchi, M. P. (1983) doi:10.1126/science.220.4598.671, and Aarts, E., and Korst, J. (1989, ISBN:0-471-92146-7) offer simulated annealing or greedy randomized approximate search procedure elements. Adaptive crossover and mutation rates depending on population statistics generalize the approach of Stanhope, S. A. and Daida, J. M. (1996, ISBN:0-18-201-031-7). For 'xega''s architecture, see Geyer-Schulz, A. (2025) doi:10.5445/IR/1000187255.

Changes in 1.0.0.16

xegaObservePopulation: Number of genes with same fitness added as 9th value in statistics vector. Indicates premature convergence.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("xegaPopulation", 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("ageyerschulz/xegaPopulation")

Development version from ageyerschulz/xegaPopulation. 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-xegapopulation

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-xegaPopulation

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-xegaPopulation

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0.16

READMEYes · 206 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0.16Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 63includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%45 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,505 · ~10/day · ~290/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24530 days

70990 days

3.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

ageyerschulz/xegapopulation ↗Account: ageyerschulz

0Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

25Commits

1Commit identities

25 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/ageyerschulz/xegapopulation on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xegaPopulation adds 9 packages (3 with compiled code, 2.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, future 477 KB, parallelly 343 KB.

Depends (5)

R >= 4.0.0parallelfuture.applyutilsstats

Imports (2)

xegaGaGene xegaSelectGene

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat future parallelly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

xega xegaMigration

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Andreas Geyer-Schulz

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0.0 (2024)

Releases (7)

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1.0.0.16Latest
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2026-07-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rmpiLapply
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0.12
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2026-02-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
asPipelineG, asPipelineID, xegaAsPipelineFactory
1.0.0.11
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2025-11-26 · diff ↗
1.0.0.10
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2025-08-22 · diff ↗
1.0.0.8
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2025-07-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
asPipeline, xegaRepairPop
1.0.0.7
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2025-04-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 14 exports
MClapplyHet, PparLapplyHet, TerminationFactory, checkTerminationFactory, futureLapplyHet, terminateAbsoluteError, terminateGEQ, terminateLEQ, terminatePAC, terminateRelativeError, terminateRelativeErrorZero, terminatedFalse, xegaEvalPopulationFactory, xegaRepEvalPopulation
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0.0
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2024-03-04
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-04
Total releases: 7 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 48 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("xegaPopulation")

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

It points to 10.5445/ir/1000187255.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xegaPopulation version 1.0.0.16 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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