timescale-package: timescale: A package for development time calculation and...

timescale-packageR Documentation

timescale: A package for development time calculation and other time scalings

Description

The package provides tools to compute the time elapsed in a different scaling of time. The package was develop to compute development time of ectotherms in function of temperature, but has been built to accept any other time scaling. It is particularly useful for non-linear thermal response of development and allows interpolation of temperature.

The principal functions of the package are timeScale and timeShift, no other function require to be explicitly called. The function timeScale evaluate the time elapsed between two bounds (x1, x2) into a scaled domain, or perform the back-transformation. The function timeShift estimate the time x2 that would correspond to a specified period elapsed in the scaled domain, given a reference time x1.

Installation and help

The package can be installed from github by entering the following command lines in R:
devtools::install_github("aleblancbio/timescale", build_vignettes = TRUE).

An overview of the package can be accessed through: browseVignettes('timescale'). To get information on a specific function, one can use ? or the help() function in R.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Alexandre Leblanc aleblanc.bio@gmail.com


aleblancbio/timescale documentation built on Aug. 27, 2022, 3:01 p.m.