sads

R package for fitting species abundance distributions

Paulo I. Prado, Murilo Miranda and Andre Chalom

Installation

install.packages('sads')
library(sads)

Or download binaries from CRAN.

Developer version

Master branch on GitHub has the release version, as available on CRAN.

If you want to install the developer version:

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

When running under Windows, you will need to install the Rtools package to build the vignettes locally.

An experimental branch implementing Lindsey’s (1999) correction for the log-likelihood of continuous density distributions when used for discrete data can be installed by:

library(devtools)
install_github(repo = 'piLaboratory/sads', ref= 'trueLL', build_vignettes = TRUE)

More info

• Project page on GitHub
• Research project at our Lab wiki