ZLAvian

0.2.0

Zipf's Law of Abbreviation in Animal Vocalisations

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1.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by CD DurrantFirst published 2023-12-052 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Assesses evidence for Zipf's Law of Abbreviation in animal vocalisation using IDs, note class and note duration. The package also provides a web plot function for visualisation.

Install

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

install.packages("ZLAvian", 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("CDr-er/ZLAvian")

Development version from CDr-er/ZLAvian. 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-zlavian

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-ZLAvian

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-ZLAvian

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,745 · ~5/day · ~156/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cdr-er/zlavian

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Last activity 2023-09-14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/cdr-er/zlavian on 2026-07-30.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (3)

lme4 performance doParallel (>= 1.0.17)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

rmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

CD Durrant

Compiler, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Tucker Gilman

Author, Copyright holder

CD Durrant

Compiler, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Tucker Gilman

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 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
0.2.0Latest
2024-05-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
2023-12-05
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-12-05
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 54 KB / 1 file
Download size: 98 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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