Tools for Quantitative Plant Disease Epidemiology

Tools for quantitative plant disease epidemiology, including functional analysis of disease progress curves, spatial epidemiology, disease quantification, and weather-driven epidemic analysis. The package also serves as an educational resource and companion to the book "R for Plant Disease Epidemiology" (R4PDE). Several functions are based on classical and contemporary methods, including those discussed in Laurence V. Madden, Gareth Hughes, and Frank van den Bosch (2007) .

r4pde

An R package developed as a companion to the book R for Plant Disease Epidemiology. It provides access to a suite of specialized R functions and datasets tailored for teaching and analyzing plant disease epidemiology. This package supports researchers, students, and practitioners by offering tools for disease quantification, spatial analysis and predictive modeling.

Installation

Install the stable release from CRAN.

install.packages("r4pde")

The development version of {r4pde} is available from GitHub. To install it along with its dependencies (including Bioconductor packages), use the pak package:

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install("emdelponte/r4pde")

Alternatively, using remotes:

if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("emdelponte/r4pde")

Reporting Issues

Please report any bugs or issues via the GitHub issue tracker.

License and Citation

• This package is released under the MIT license.
• To cite the package, please use:

citation("r4pde")