Ben Bolker

42 packages On CRAN since Oct 2002 (23 years) · last active 1 day ago 0000-0002-2127-0443

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lme4

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broom

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car

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gtools

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reformulas

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emmeans

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vegan

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ape

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gplots

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plotrix

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Recent Activity

rncl updated v0.8.10 Aug 4, 2026

An Interface to the Nexus Class Library

sfsmisc updated v1.1-25 Aug 3, 2026

Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich

foghorn updated v1.6.2 Jul 16, 2026

Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal

lme4 updated v2.0-6 Jul 16, 2026

Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4

emmeans updated v2.0.4 Jul 15, 2026

Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means

sdmTMB updated v1.1.0 Jul 3, 2026

Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'

fortunes updated v1.5-5 Jun 26, 2026

R Fortunes

dotwhisker updated v0.8.6 Jun 24, 2026

Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results

power.nb new v0.1.0 Jun 15, 2026

Power and Sample Size Calculation for Differential Abundance Microbiome Studies

vegan updated v2.7-5 May 25, 2026

Community Ecology Package

Maintained Packages

10 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
lme4	Linear Mixed-Effects Models using 'Eigen' and S4	576.2K	2.0-6
gtools	Various R Programming Tools	359.1K	3.9.5
reformulas	Machinery for Processing Random Effect Formulas	357.1K	0.4.4
broom.mixed	Tidying Methods for Mixed Models	44.1K	0.2.9.7
bbmle	Tools for General Maximum Likelihood Estimation	29.9K	1.0.25.1
emdbook	Support Functions and Data for "Ecological Models and Data"	12K	1.3.14
margins	Marginal Effects for Model Objects	11K	0.3.28
prediction	Tidy, Type-Safe 'prediction()' Methods	10.2K	0.3.18
MEMSS	Data Sets from Mixed-Effects Models in S	8.2K	0.9-4
mbest	Moment-Based Estimation for Hierarchical Models	1.3K	0.6.1

Co-authored Packages

11 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
vegan	Community Ecology Package	116.9K	2.7-5
ape	Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution	113.7K	5.8-1
gplots	Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data	95.5K	3.3.0
glmmTMB	Generalized Linear Mixed Models using Template Model Builder	45.6K	1.1.14
gmodels	Various R Programming Tools for Model Fitting	22.5K	2.19.1
afex	Analysis of Factorial Experiments	19.8K	1.5-1
rncl	An Interface to the Nexus Class Library	11.9K	0.8.10
mlmRev	Examples from Multilevel Modelling Software Review	10.6K	1.0-9
SASmixed	Data Sets from "SAS System for Mixed Models	946	1.0-5
power.nb	Power and Sample Size Calculation for Differential Abundance Microbiome Studies	174	0.1.0
epigrowthfit	Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models of Epidemic Growth	168	0.15.4

Contributions

20 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
broom	Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles	476.7K	1.0.13
car	Companion to Applied Regression	383.5K	3.1-5
emmeans	Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means	142.3K	2.0.4
plotrix	Various Plotting Functions	67.5K	3.8-14
rgl	3D Visualization Using OpenGL	56.7K	1.3.36
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	40.6K	0.99.60
gdata	Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation	33K	3.0.1
sfsmisc	Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich	17.8K	1.1-25
foghorn	Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal	11.6K	1.6.2
blme	Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models	8K	1.0-7
ergm	Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks	7.4K	4.12.0
RLRsim	Exact (Restricted) Likelihood Ratio Tests for Mixed and Additive Models	6.2K	3.1-9
dotwhisker	Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results	5K	0.8.6
sdmTMB	Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'	3.1K	1.1.0
fortunes	R Fortunes	2.7K	1.5-5
metaplus	Robust Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression	2.4K	1.0-8
rmsb	Bayesian Regression Modeling Strategies	2.1K	1.1-2
stevemisc	Steve's Miscellaneous Functions	295	1.9.0
stan4bart	Bayesian Additive Regression Trees with Stan-Sampled Parametric Extensions	265	0.0-12
galamm	Generalized Additive Latent and Mixed Models	208	0.4.0

Other Roles

1 package

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
rstanarm	Bayesian Applied Regression Modeling via Stan	40.9K	2.32.2

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