palaeoverse
Prepare and Explore Data for Palaeobiological Analyses
Provides functionality to support data preparation and exploration for
palaeobiological analyses, improving code reproducibility and accessibility. The
wider aim of 'palaeoverse' is to bring the palaeobiological community together
to establish agreed standards. The package currently includes functionality for
data cleaning, binning (time and space), exploration, summarisation and
visualisation. Reference datasets (i.e. Geological Time Scales < https://stratigraphy.org/chart/>)
and auxiliary functions are also provided. Details can be found in:
Jones et al., (2023)
palaeoverse 
palaeoverse is an R package developed by palaeobiologists, for palaeobiologists.
The aim of palaeoverse is to generate a community-driven software package of generic functions for the palaeobiological community. The package does not provide implementations of statistical analyses, rather it provides auxiliary functions to help streamline analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility.
Installation
The stable version of palaeoverse can be installed from CRAN using:
install.packages("palaeoverse")
The development version of palaeoverse can be installed via GitHub using:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("palaeoverse/palaeoverse")
How to contribute?
If you are interested in contributing to the palaeoverse R package, you can do so by following these guidelines. We have also adopted a set of standards and structure to follow for contributing to the project. If you would like to contribute to palaeoverse, we strongly advise reading this document.
Code of Conduct
As with any community project, society, or meeting we feel it is important to established some expectations of behaviour in the palaeoverse community. Please read our code of conduct, and reach out if you ever face any issues. Everyone has the right to live and work in a harassment-free environment.
Citation
If you use the palaeoverse R package in your work, please cite the original article describing the package:
Jones, L.A., Gearty, W., Allen, B.J., Eichenseer, K., Dean, C.D., Galván S., Kouvari, M., Godoy, P.L., Nicholl, C., Buffan, L., Dillon, E.M., Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Chiarenza, A.A. 2023. palaeoverse: A community-driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(09), 2205–2215. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14099.
And the package version you are using:
# Get citation
citation("palaeoverse")
# Get citation in BibTex format
toBibtex(citation("palaeoverse"))
Maintainers
- Lewis A. Jones, University College London
- Palaeoverse
Contributors
All contributions to this project are gratefully acknowledged using the allcontributors package following the allcontributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!
