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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

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")

Note: The package depends on Icens, which is available from Bioconductor. Both pak and remotes will install it automatically if needed.

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")