SIMplyBee

0.4.1

'AlphaSimR' Extension for Simulating Honeybee Populations and Breeding Programmes

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2.9Kdownloads / year

45.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jana ObšteterFirst published 2022-12-153 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An extension of the 'AlphaSimR' package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=AlphaSimR) for stochastic simulations of honeybee populations and breeding programmes. 'SIMplyBee' enables simulation of individual bees that form a colony, which includes a queen, fathers (drones the queen mated with), virgin queens, workers, and drones. Multiple colony can be merged into a population of colonies, such as an apiary or a whole country of colonies. Functions enable operations on castes, colony, or colonies, to ease 'R' scripting of whole populations. All 'AlphaSimR' functionality with respect to genomes and genetic and phenotype values is available and further extended for honeybees, including haplo-diploidy, complementary sex determiner locus, colony events (swarming, supersedure, etc.), and colony phenotype values.

Install

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

install.packages("SIMplyBee", 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("HighlanderLab/SIMplyBee")

Development version from HighlanderLab/SIMplyBee. 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-simplybee

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-SIMplyBee

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-SIMplyBee

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

45.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 99%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ highlanderlab/simplybee

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67Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

1,246Commits

7Contributors

1,246 commits · Last activity 2025-11-20 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/highlanderlab/simplybee on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.3.0AlphaSimR

Imports (7)

methodsR6statsutilsextraDistr RANN Rcpp

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo BH

Suggests (5)

rmarkdown knitr ggplot2 testthatMatrix

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none

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jana Obšteter

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Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.1Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-12-15
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-12-15
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 2.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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