Article
A Dendrochronology Program Library in R (dplR)
Dendrochronologia
(2008)
Abstract
I present and describe a new software package in the R statistical programming environment for dendrochronology. R is considered the world's pre-eminent open-source statistical computing environment where users can contribute packages, which are freely available on the Internet. The dendrochronology program library in R (dplR) is able to read standard decadal-format files and allows users to perform several standard analyses including interactive detrending, chronology building, and the calculation of standard descriptive statistics. The package can also produce a variety of publication quality plots. The dplR package should make it easier for dendrochronologists to take advantage of R and use it as their primary analytic environment.
Keywords
- Statistical software,
- R,
- Detrending,
- Chronology
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2008
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. DOI:10.1016/j.dendro.2008.01.002
Citation Information
Andrew G. Bunn. "A Dendrochronology Program Library in R (dplR)" Dendrochronologia Vol. 26 Iss. 2 (2008) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andrew_bunn/22/