ethnobotanyR

0.2.0

Ethnobotanical Analysis, Decision-Framing, and TEK Modeling

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Overview

About

Maintained by Cory WhitneyFirst published 2019-01-0810 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for quantifying Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), modeling TEK in decision frameworks, and designing structured decision-framing exercises in conservation and development contexts. The package implements quantitative ethnobotany indices (Use Value, Relative Frequency of Citation, etc.) but positions them within a larger framework of Bayesian modeling and participatory decision analysis. Includes critical assessment of indices' limitations and case studies of participatory workshops.

Install

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

install.packages("ethnobotanyR", 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("CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR")

Development version from CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR. 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-ethnobotanyr

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-ethnobotanyR

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-ethnobotanyR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 337 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 94%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cwwhitney/ethnobotanyr

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21Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

372Commits

3Contributors

ethnobotanyindicesquantitative-methods

372 commits · Last activity 2026-07-13 · +10% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cwwhitney/ethnobotanyr on 2026-07-19.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (8)

circlize cowplot dplyr ggalluvial ggplot2 ggridges reshape2 magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

broom knitr rmarkdown tidyr stringr purrr tibble vegan bnlearn causaleffect gRain pbapply tidyselect tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

Vignettes 3,843 (49%)Other 1,611 (20%)R 1,552 (20%)Rd 905 (11%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.5 median / 11 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

16 16 exported

Complexity

5.6 avg / 11 max

Call network

16 nodes / 7 edges

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Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
ethnobotanydata	data.frame	80 × 12	–

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Cory Whitney

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cory Whitney

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-08
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 0.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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