divDyn

0.8.3

Diversity Dynamics using Fossil Sampling Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Adam T. KocsisFirst published 2018-10-087 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions to describe sampling and diversity dynamics of fossil occurrence datasets (e.g. from the Paleobiology Database). The package includes methods to calculate range- and occurrence-based metrics of taxonomic richness, extinction and origination rates, along with traditional sampling measures. A powerful subsampling tool is also included that implements frequently used sampling standardization methods in a multiple bin-framework. The plotting of time series and the occurrence data can be simplified by the functions incorporated in the package, as well as other calculations, such as environmental affinities and extinction selectivity testing. Details can be found in: Kocsis, A.T.; Reddin, C.J.; Alroy, J. and Kiessling, W. (2019) doi:10.1101/423780.

Install

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

install.packages("divDyn", 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("divDyn/r-package")

Development version from divDyn/r-package. 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-divdyn

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-divDyn

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
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ERROR2026-03-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ divdyn/r-package

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293Commits

2Contributors

r-packagediversityextinctionoriginationfossil-dataoccurrencespaleobiology

License GPL-3.0 · 293 commits · Last activity 2025-12-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

RcppstatsgraphicsgrDevicesmethods

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Rcpp

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown vegan icosa

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

deeptime paleoDiv

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Adam T. Kocsis

Maintainer, Author

Authors (4)

Maintainer, Author

Author

Author

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Funders (2)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Funder · added in 0.8.3

FAU GeoZentrum Nordbayern

Funder · added in 0.8.3

Package Timeline

7 releases. 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.8.1
2021-03-02 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-03-02
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-24
check problems were not corrected in time Use of deprecated/defunct C++
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-06-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-02-19 · diff ↗
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2019-01-08 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-08
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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