README.md

In huntercole25/EcoCountHelper: An assistant for comparing and interpretting models with count data

EcoCountHelper

Package Purpose

EcoCountHelper is a R package designed to make the meaningful analysis of wildlife count data through generalized linear mixed-models (GLMMs) more accessible to land and wildlife managers with limited programmatic experience. GLMMs can be a powerful and flexible tool for analyzing hierarchical data (e.g., repeated counts of bat call sequences at multiple sites), but the lack of standardization surrounding these analyses paired with the requisite level of programmatic competence can make them daunting to approach for many biologists and ecologists. The EcoCountHelper package provides a structured framework for approaching GLMM analyses that simplifies the coding process necessary to conduct such analyses.

Installing and Citing EcoCountHelper

Installing

EcoCountHelper requires R version >= 4.2.2. You must update R if you are using an earlier version. The easiest way to do this is to open the R graphical user interface (RStudio and other IDEs can sometimes cause issues), and use the updateR() function from the installr package.

install.packages("installr")
require(installr)
updateR()

The simplest way to install EcoCountHelper is to use the install_github function from the devtools package. Before proceeding with this the installation of EcoCountHelper, you must first ensure that you have the software "Rtools" installed (available through this link), then ensure devtools is installed. To install and load devtools then install EcoCountHelper, use the code below:

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github(repo = "huntercole25/EcoCountHelper", build_vignettes = T)

Citing

After installing EcoCountHelper, to see citation information for the package use the line of code below:

citation("EcoCountHelper")

Learning More

For an in-depth example of the workflow and functions associated with this package, run the code below in your R session after installing EcoCountHelper:

vignette("EcoCountHelperExample")

huntercole25/EcoCountHelper documentation built on Jan. 14, 2023, 4:13 a.m.