Here we list our main contributions.
We also contribute to many other R packages, but our contributions are not as crucial or the projects are small and experiemental. For more details, you can check our GitHub pages:
Open source
For natural scientists
- {climwin} is a package designed to detect and visualise periods of climate sensitivity (climate windows) for a given biological response. Created and maintained by Liam.
- {IsoriX} to build isoscapes using mixed models and infer the geographic origin of organisms based on their isotopic ratios. Created and maintained by Alex.
- {torpor} to fit thermoregulatory curves in heterothermic endotherm species, while assigning metabolic rates to the correct physiological state. Created and maintained by Colin.
- {camtrapR} to manage camera trap photographs in wildlife studies. We helped its maintainer – Jürgen Niedballa – to set it up while he was still a PhD student.
For all data scientists
- {ABMR6} an example of how to implement individual-based simulations using R6. Created by Alex, maintained by Liam.
- {lay} to perform simple but efficient rowwise jobs. Created together with Romain François and maintained by Alex.
- {spaMM} to efficiently fit linear models of varying complexity, including mixed models with spatial autocorrelation. We contribute to its development mostly by using this package a lot, debugging it and suggesting new features. Maintained by one very close collaborator (François Rousset).
- {timevarcorr} to estimate time varying correlation coefficients using non-parametric kernel smoothing. Created and maintained by Alex.
Private (for now)
- {hyenaR} to manage most of the data generated by the hyena project. Created and maintained by Liam and Alex.
- {SHIM} , a Spotted Hyena Individual-based Model simulating the lives of hyenas followed by the hyena project. Created and maintained by Liam.
These packages will become open when we judge them ready for others to use.
