Analysis of Incubation Data

Suite of functions to study animal incubation. At the core of incR lies an algorithm that allows for the scoring of incubation behaviour. Additionally, several functions extract biologically relevant metrics of incubation such as off-bout number and off-bout duration - for a review of avian incubation studies, see Nests, Eggs, and Incubation: New ideas about avian reproduction (2015) edited by D. Charles Deeming and S. James Reynolds .

incR: R package for the analysis of avian incubation

This is the development site of incR, an R package to analyse avian incubation temperatures and incubation behaviour. The code and the documentation are updated often - check for latest version here and on CRAN.

incR takes a time-series of incubation temperature, scores incubation and provides a suite of functions to calculate biologically relevant metrics of incubation.

Please, if you use the package and find bugs or think of any improvement, get in contact to implement your recommendations.

Latest news

Version 2.1.1 is available on CRAN. Please, check NEWS document for the latest updates.

Development version available on GitHub 2.1.1.9000 (September 2025).

Citation

Please, if you use incR cite it as:

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo (2018). incR: a new R package to analyse incubation behaviour. Journal of Avian Biology 49:e01710. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01710