README.md

In fluxfinder: Parsing, Computation, and Diagnostics for Greenhouse Gas Measurements

fluxfinder

The goal of fluxfinder is to allow users to straightforwardly parse data files generated by infrared gas analyzers used in environmental sciences research; match data and metadata; compute greenhouse gas fluxes; and generate QA/QC plots and diagnostics.

We emphasize clear and well-documented code, good documentation, and focused functions that can be easily integrated into conventional or tidyverse-style analytical pipelines.

It is also straightforward to integrate this package's utilities with the more powerful flux-computation capabilities of the gasfluxes package.

Installation

You can install fluxfinder from CRAN...

install.packages("fluxfinder")

...or the development version of fluxfinder from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("COMPASS-DOE/fluxfinder", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Supported data file types

Currently fluxfinder provides functions to read data from:

• The LI-COR Smart Chamber
• LI-COR 78xx Trace Gas Analyzers, including the LI-7810 and LI-7820
• Older LGR 915 analyzers
• The Picarro G2301
• The EGM-4
• The LI-COR LI-850

Next steps

See the introductory vignette! That is the best and most up-to-date resource.

Citation

If you use fluxfinder in your research, please cite it! See citation("fluxfinder").

fluxfinder documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:39 p.m.