README.md

In ibartomeus/BeeIT: Tools to estimate tongue length

BeeIT

Tools to estimate tongue length, foraging distance and body weight form bees intertegular distances (IT).

How to use it?

You have to install the package from GitHub. Thats easy:

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github('ibartomeus/BeeIT')
library(BeeIT)

Once the package is loaded, its use is pretty simple, it require a vector of intertegular distances (IT) and bee families.

#dummy dataset
its <- rnorm(100, 10, 2)
families <- rep(c("Andrenidae", "Apidae", "Colletidae", "Halictidae", "Megachilidae"),20)
Out <- ITconverter(IT = its, family = families)
plot(Out$tongue_length.tongue ~ Out$body_mass)

You can ask for help

?ITconverter
?ITtongue
?ITforaging
?ITweigth

Or access the data used to fit the equation:

data(tongues)
head(tongues)
?tongues

And cite our paper if you use it:

citation("BeeIT")

Or find the paper here: "Cariveau, Nayak, Bartomeus, Ascher, Winfree. 2015 The allometry of bee tongue length an its uses in ecology and evolution" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151482

ibartomeus/BeeIT documentation built on Nov. 23, 2020, 10:15 a.m.