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microViz

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Microbiome Data Analysis and Visualization

github.com/david-barnett/microViz ↗

Microbiome ordination and visualisation, in maintenance and keeping pace with vegan and ggplot2.

microbiomeordinationphyloseqmaintenancer-package
◆Current state
microViz provides visualisation and statistics for microbiome data built on phyloseq, including ordination exploration, distance-based dispersion analysis and composition plots. The release notes are pointer-style entries that name a pull request and link a comparison range rather than describing what changed, so most of what can be established from this feed is cadence and dependency pressure rather than substance. Version 0.13.1 is the exception, naming documentation work on dist_bdisp and its defaults relative to vegan's betadisper.
◆Where it's heading
Read through the dependency mentions, the pattern is a package spending its releases absorbing changes in the ecosystem beneath it: vegan deprecating summary in favour of scores, cowplot warning under ggplot2 3.5, testthat declarations centralised, CI actions updated. Nothing in the window indicates new analytical capability, and the 0.13.0 minor bump that would be the place to look for it ships with no notes at all. The honest reading is a stable package under maintenance by a single maintainer.
◆Prediction
Expect continued upkeep against phyloseq, vegan and ggplot2 changes rather than a feature programme. Because the notes do not describe their own contents, a substantive release here would be indistinguishable from a maintenance one in this feed, so the direction cannot be read from these entries alone.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    microViz 0.13.1

    Documentation clarifying how dist_bdisp's defaults differ from vegan's betadisper, with parity coverage added to back it up, plus test robustness and CI updates. The clarification is worth having given the two functions can be expected to agree and do not, but nothing here changes behaviour.

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  2. 6mo ago

    microViz 0.13.0

    A minor version bump whose notes contain only a pull request reference and a comparison link, so what changed is not disclosed in the feed. The increment from 0.12.7 implies user-visible change, but this entry provides no basis for saying what it was.

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  3. 1y ago

    microViz 0.12.7

    A patch release referencing a single issue fix, with no description of the problem or its effect. Consistent with the routine corrective releases that make up most of this window.

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  4. 1y ago

    microViz 0.12.6

    Switches to vegan's scores function after summary was deprecated in vegan 2.7.0. A compatibility fix with no effect on results, and one of several such adjustments in this window.

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  5. 1y ago

    microViz 0.12.5

    Described only as small fixes with a pull request reference. Nothing in the entry identifies what was fixed.

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  6. 2y ago

    microViz 0.12.4

    Resolves a cowplot legend warning triggered by ggplot2 3.5. Another instance of the package absorbing an upstream change rather than making one of its own.

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