BKBreed

0.3.2

Colourful Biometrical Analysis for Plant Breeding and Genetics

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Overview

About

Maintained by Praveen Kumar B. K.First published 2026-07-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A compact, colour-first toolkit for the analysis of plant breeding and genetics field experiments. It provides analysis of variance for the randomised block design (RBD) and factorial RBD, a check-anchored intra-block analysis for augmented alpha-lattice designs, and the core biometrical-genetics workflow used in crop improvement: estimation of genetic variability (genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation, broad-sense heritability, expected genetic advance), genotypic and phenotypic correlation, path-coefficient analysis, line x tester and Griffing diallel combining-ability analysis (general combining ability and specific combining ability), Mahalanobis D-square genetic-divergence analysis with Tocher and hierarchical clustering, and genotype-by-environment stability analysis (Eberhart-Russell regression and the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model). Methods follow Griffing (1956) doi:10.1071/BI9560463 and Eberhart and Russell (1966) doi:10.2135/cropsci1966.0011183X000600010011x. Every analysis returns a tidy result object and a publication-ready 'ggplot2' figure using a bespoke high-contrast colour system.

Install

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

install.packages("BKBreed", 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("bkpraveenars-del/BKBreed")

Development version from bkpraveenars-del/BKBreed. 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-bkbreed

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-BKBreed

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

62.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-31
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bkpraveenars-del/bkbreed

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

statsutilsgrDevicesggplot2

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Suggests (5)

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Praveen Kumar B. K.

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Authors (1)

Praveen Kumar B. K.

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.3.2Latest
2026-07-30 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
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