BKBreed: Colourful Biometrical Analysis for Plant Breeding and Genetics

A compact, colour-first toolkit for the analysis of plant breeding and genetics field experiments. It provides analysis of variance for the randomised block design (RBD) and factorial RBD, a check-anchored intra-block analysis for augmented alpha-lattice designs, and the core biometrical-genetics workflow used in crop improvement: estimation of genetic variability (genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation, broad-sense heritability, expected genetic advance), genotypic and phenotypic correlation, path-coefficient analysis, line x tester and Griffing diallel combining-ability analysis (general combining ability and specific combining ability), Mahalanobis D-square genetic-divergence analysis with Tocher and hierarchical clustering, and genotype-by-environment stability analysis (Eberhart-Russell regression and the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model). Methods follow Griffing (1956) <doi:10.1071/BI9560463> and Eberhart and Russell (1966) <doi:10.2135/cropsci1966.0011183X000600010011x>. Every analysis returns a tidy result object and a publication-ready 'ggplot2' figure using a bespoke high-contrast colour system.

Version: 0.3.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: stats, utils, grDevices, ggplot2
Suggests: ggrepel, patchwork, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-07-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BKBreed (may not be active yet)
Author: Praveen Kumar B. K. [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Praveen Kumar B. K. <bkpraveenars at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/bkpraveenars-del/BKBreed/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/bkpraveenars-del/BKBreed
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: BKBreed results

Documentation:

Reference manual: BKBreed.html , BKBreed.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: BKBreed_0.3.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): BKBreed_0.3.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): BKBreed_0.3.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): BKBreed_0.3.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): BKBreed_0.3.2.tgz

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