R/dssd-package.R

In dssd: Distance Sampling Survey Design

#' Distance Sampling Survey Design (dssd)
#'
#' Creates survey designs for distance sampling surveys. These
#'  designs can be assessed for various effort and coverage statistics.
#'  Once the user is satisfied with the design characteristics they can
#'  generate a set of transects to use in their distance sampling survey.
#'  Many of the designs implemented in this R package were first made
#'  available in our 'Distance' for Windows software and are detailed in
#'  Chapter 7 of Advanced Distance Sampling, Buckland et. al. (2008,
#'  ISBN-13: 978-0199225873).
#'
#'  The main functions in this package are: \link{make.region}, \link{make.design}, \link{generate.transects} and \link{run.coverage}. See also \link{write.transects} for examples of how to export surveys generated by dssd.
#'
#' Further information on distance sampling methods and example code is available at \url{http://distancesampling.org/R/}.
#'
#' Also see our website for vignettes / example code at \url{http://examples.distancesampling.org}.
#'
#' For help with distance sampling and this package, there is a Google Group \url{https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/distance-sampling}.
#'
#' @name dssd-package
#' @aliases dssd-package dssd
#' @docType package
#' @author Laura Marshall <lhm@@st-and.ac.uk>
#' @keywords package
#'
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