Vignette, Adding a New Index"

In BioMonTools: Biomonitoring and Bioassessment Calculations

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Purpose

To show the user how to add a new suite of metrics and scoring thresholds to allow for index calculation with the metric.score function.

Resources Needed

The user will need the documentation for the intended index and preferably a test data set (typically in the documentation for the index).

Steps

1. Add to MetricScores.xlsx (metrics and index).

2. Create testthat example for metric values and metric/index scores.

BioMonTools documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:18 p.m.