The devRate package allows quantifying the relationship between development rate and temperature in ectotherm organisms.
You can use the package:
to get development rate curves as a function of temperature for a specific organism (hundred of examples from the literature are included in the package);
to know which equations exists and which are most used in the literature; and
to relate development rate with temperature from your empirical data, using the equations from the package database.
# from CRAN
install.packages("devRate")
# Or the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
::install_github("frareb/devRate") devtools
The devRate package provides three categories of functions:
functions to find development rate information about a specific organism (Order, Family, Genus, species)
functions to relate development rate and temperature, and
functions to plot your empirical datasets and the associated fitted model, and/or to plot development curves from the literature.
UMR EGCE (IRD, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
To cite this package please use:
citation("devRate")
#>
#> To cite package 'devRate' in publications use:
#>
#> Rebaudo F, Regnier B (2023). _devRate: Quantify the Relationship
#> Between Development Rate and Temperature in Ectotherms_. R package
#> version 0.2.4, <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=devRate>.
#>
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#>
#> @Manual{,
#> title = {devRate: Quantify the Relationship Between Development Rate and Temperature in Ectotherms},
#> author = {Francois Rebaudo and Baptiste Regnier},
#> year = {2023},
#> note = {R package version 0.2.4},
#> url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=devRate},
#> }
and/or: Rebaudo F., Struelens Q., Dangles O. Modelling temperature-dependent development rate and phenology in arthropods: The devRate package for R. Methods Ecol Evol. 2017;00:1-7.