rbiom: Integrated Analysis and Visualization of Microbiome Data

A toolkit for working with Biological Observation Matrix ('BIOM') files. Read/write all 'BIOM' formats. Compute rarefaction, alpha diversity, and beta diversity (including 'UniFrac'). Summarize counts by taxonomic level. Subset based on metadata. Generate visualizations and statistical analyses.

Version: 3.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.3.0)
Imports: methods, mgcv, stats, utils, ape, dplyr, ecodive, emmeans, fillpattern, ggbeeswarm, ggnewscale, ggplot2, ggrepel, ggtext, jsonlite, magrittr, patchwork, pillar, plyr, readr, readxl, vegan
Suggests: cli, crayon, ggdensity, glue, h5lite, labeling, lifecycle, Matrix, openxlsx, optparse, pkgconfig, prettycode, R6, rlang, scales, testthat, tibble, tsne, uwot
Published: 2026-05-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rbiom
Author: Daniel P. Smith ORCID iD [aut, cre], Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Daniel P. Smith <dansmith01 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/cmmr/rbiom/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://cmmr.github.io/rbiom/, https://github.com/cmmr/rbiom
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README
CRAN checks: rbiom results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rbiom.html , rbiom.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: rbiom_3.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rbiom_3.1.0.zip, r-release: rbiom_2.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: rbiom_3.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rbiom_3.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rbiom_3.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rbiom_3.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rbiom_3.1.0.tgz
Old sources: rbiom archive

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