bipartite

2.24

Visualising Bipartite Networks and Calculating Some (Ecological) Indices

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Overview

About

Maintained by Carsten F. DormannFirst published 2007-12-0359 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions to visualise webs and calculate a series of indices commonly used to describe pattern in (ecological) webs. It focuses on webs consisting of only two levels (bipartite), e.g. pollination webs or predator-prey-webs. Visualisation is important to get an idea of what we are actually looking at, while the indices summarise different aspects of the web's topology.

Install

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

install.packages("bipartite", 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("biometry/bipartite")

Development version from biometry/bipartite. 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-bipartite

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

# 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-bipartite

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

88%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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WARNING2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 75%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ biometry/bipartite

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7Contributors

288 commits · Last activity 2026-07-05 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0sna vegan

Imports (6)

corpcor fields igraphMASSmethodspermute

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

14direct

6indirect

NIMAA bioregion bootPLS cassandRa econullnetr nos plsRglm tapnet HiveR bipartiteD3 emln leiden plsRbeta primer

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Carsten F. Dormann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Carsten F. Dormann

Author, Maintainer

Jochen Fruend

Author · added in 0.92

Bernd Gruber

Author

Contributors (9)

Tobias Bauer

Contributor · added in 2.21

Stephen Beckett

Contributor · added in 2.17

Mariano Devoto

Contributor · added in 2.11

Gabriel M.F. Felix

Contributor · added in 2.17

Jose M. Iriondo

Contributor · added in 2.19

Tore Opsahl

Contributor · added in 2.17

Rafael B.P. Pinheiro

Contributor · added in 2.17

Rouven Strauss

Contributor · added in 1.13

Show 1 more contributors

Diego P. Vazquez

Contributor · added in 2.19

Listed in earlier versions (16)

based on the C-code developed by Nils Bluethgen.

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.72

with additional code from Jochen Fruend

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.91

also based on C-code developed by Nils Bluethgen

no longer listed · 0.73 to 2.16

by Miguel Rodriguez-Girones.

no longer listed · 0.73 to 1.12

with additional code from Mariano Devoto

no longer listed · 0.92 to 2.08

Jose Iriondo

no longer listed · 0.92 to 2.16

Diego Vazquez

no longer listed · 0.92 to 2.16

Miguel Rodriguez-Girones.

no longer listed · 1.13 to 2.05

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-12-03
Total releases: 59 / 19 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 38 KB / 24 files
Download size: 4.3 MB
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