Quality Evaluation of Core Collections

Implements various quality evaluation statistics to assess the value of plant germplasm core collections using qualitative and quantitative phenotypic trait data according to Odong et al. (2015) .

EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections

Version : 0.1.5; Copyright (C) 2018-2026: ICAR-NBPGR; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Aravind, J.¹, Kaur, V.², Wankhede, D. P.³ and Nanjundan, J.⁴

1. Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
2. Division of Germplasm Evaluation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
3. Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
4. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

Description

Implements various quality evaluation statistics to assess the value of plant germplasm core collections using qualitative and quantitative phenotypic trait data according to Odong et al. (2015) doi:10.1007/s00122-012-1971-y.

Installation

The package can be installed from CRAN as follows:

# Install from CRAN
install.packages('EvaluateCore', dependencies=TRUE)

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/EvaluateCore")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='EvaluateCore')

Links

CRAN page

Github page

Documentation website

Zenodo DOI

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Citing EvaluateCore

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("EvaluateCore")

To cite the R package 'EvaluateCore' in publications use:

  Aravind, J., Kaur, V., Wankhede, D. P. and Nanjundan, J. (2026).  EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of
  Core Collections. R package version 0.1.5,
  https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=EvaluateCore.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections},
    author = {J. Aravind and Vikender Kaur and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede and J. Nanjundan},
    note = {R package version 0.1.5 https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/ https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=EvaluateCore},
    year = {2026},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use
it, please support the project by citing the package.