Introduction
Package ecotraj is a package providing a framework to assist ecologists in the analysis of temporal changes in ecosystems defined on a chosen multivariate space. It is related to the following publications:
First presentation of the community trajectory analysis framework: De Cáceres et al. (2019) (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1350).
Extension of community trajectory analysis: Sturbois et al. (2021) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109400).
Package installation
Package ecotraj can be found at CRAN. In addition, the latest stable ecotraj R package can also be installed from GitHub as follows:
devtools::install_github("emf-creaf/ecotraj")Additionally, users can have help to run package functions directly as package vignettes, by forcing their inclusion in installation:
devtools::install_github("emf-creaf/ecotraj",
build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual"),
build_vignettes = TRUE)References
De Cáceres, M., Coll, L., Legendre, P., Allen, R.B., Wiser, S.K., Fortin, M.J., Condit, R. & Hubbell, S.. (2019). Trajectory analysis in community ecology. Ecological Monographs.
Sturbois, A., De Cáceres, M., Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Schaal, G., Gauthier, O., Le Mao, P., Ponsero, A., & Desroy, N. (2021). Extending community trajectory analysis : New metrics and representation. Ecological Modelling, 440, 109400.