R Observatory: Metrics for nichevol version 0.1.20

Balamuta, James Joseph

nichevol

0.1.20

Tools for Ecological Niche Evolution Assessment Considering Uncertainty

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marlon E. CobosFirst published 2020-03-022 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of tools that allow users to perform critical steps in the process of assessing ecological niche evolution over phylogenies, with uncertainty incorporated explicitly in reconstructions. The method proposed here for ancestral reconstruction of ecological niches characterizes species' niches using a bin-based approach that incorporates uncertainty in estimations. Compared to other existing methods, the approaches presented here reduce risk of overestimation of amounts and rates of ecological niche evolution. The main analyses include: initial exploration of environmental data in occurrence records and accessible areas, preparation of data for phylogenetic analyses, executing comparative phylogenetic analyses of ecological niches, and plotting for interpretations. Details on the theoretical background and methods used can be found in: Owens et al. (2020) doi:10.1002/ece3.6359, Peterson et al. (1999) doi:10.1126/science.285.5431.1265, Soberón and Peterson (2005) doi:10.17161/bi.v2i0.4, Peterson (2011) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02456.x, Barve et al. (2011) doi:10.1111/ecog.02671, Machado-Stredel et al. (2021) doi:10.21425/F5FBG48814, Owens et al. (2013) doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.04.011, Saupe et al. (2018) doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx084, and Cobos et al. (2021) doi:10.1111/jav.02868.

Install

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

install.packages("nichevol", 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("marlonecobos/nichevol")

Development version from marlonecobos/nichevol. 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-nichevol

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-nichevol

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-nichevol

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 7.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMEYes · 5,321 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,008 · ~6/day · ~197/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ marlonecobos/nichevol

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263Commits

2Contributors

263 commits · Last activity 2023-03-10

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/marlonecobos/nichevol on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ape

Imports (8)

castor geigergraphicsgrDevicesstringrstatsterrautils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr phytools

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Marlon E. Cobos

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Marlon E. Cobos

Author, Maintainer

Hannah L. Owens

Author

A. Townsend Peterson

Author

Package Timeline

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-02
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 13 KB / 6 files
Download size: 276 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("nichevol")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nichevol

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{nichevol,
  title  = {nichevol: Tools for Ecological Niche Evolution Assessment Considering
Uncertainty},
  author = {Cobos, Marlon E. and Owens, Hannah L. and Peterson, A. Townsend},
  year   = {2023},
  note   = {R package version 0.1.20},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.nichevol},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nichevol}
}

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This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatorynichevol,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {nichevol} version 0.1.20},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/nichevol},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nichevol version 0.1.20 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/nichevol

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for nichevol version 0.1.20
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
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ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/nichevol.

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