BAT

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Biodiversity Assessment Tools

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22.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Pedro CardosoFirst published 2014-08-1943 releasesCRAN page ↗

Includes algorithms to assess alpha and beta diversity in all their dimensions (taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional). It allows performing a number of analyses based on species identities/abundances, phylogenetic/functional distances, trees, convex-hulls or kernel density n-dimensional hypervolumes depicting species relationships. Cardoso et al. (2015) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12310.

Install

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

install.packages("BAT", 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-bat

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-BAT

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-BAT

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 11.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 99%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

22.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,326 · ~61/day · ~1.8K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (15)

apebootgeometrygraphicshypervolumeMASSmethodsnls2parallelphytoolsstatsterra TreeToolsutilsvegan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,894 (61%)Rd 3,744 (39%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 40 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

112 77 exported

Complexity

7.5 avg / 40 max

Call network

112 nodes / 168 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 3

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
arrabida	data.frame	320 × 338	–
geres	data.frame	320 × 338	–
guadiana	data.frame	192 × 338	–

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Pedro Cardoso

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Pedro Cardoso

Author, Maintainer

Jose Carvalho

Author · added in 2.5.0

Renato Hilario

Author · added in 2.11.0

Stefano Mammola

Author · added in 2.0.0

Francois Rigal

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jose Carlos Carvalho

no longer listed · 1.0 to 2.4.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-19
Total releases: 43 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 40 KB / 5 files
Download size: 146 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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