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sads

R package for fitting species abundance distributions

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Installation

Available on CRAN. To install and load current release version in R:

install.packages(sads)
load(sads)

Devel version

You can install developer version from GitHub with:

library(devtools)
install_github(repo = 'piLaboratory/sads', ref= 'dev')

Motivation

The distribution of abundances of species is one of the basic patterns of ecological communities. The empirical distributions of abundances (SADs) or their ranks (RADs) are modelled through probability distributions. Hence, the maximum likelihood method can be used to fit and compare such models.

Features

More info

vignette(topic="sads_intro", package="sads")