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dplR (version 1.8.0)

Dendrochronology Program Library in R

Description

Perform tree-ring analyses such as detrending, chronology building, and cross dating. Read and write standard file formats used in dendrochronology.

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install.packages('dplR')

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1.8.0

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GPL (>= 2)

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Andy Bunn

Last Published

October 1st, 2026

Functions in dplR (1.8.0)

as.rwl

as.rwl
ca533

Campito Mountain Tree Ring Widths
as.rwi

Ring-Width Index (rwi) Objects
as.bai

Basal Area Increment (bai) Objects
chron.ci

Build Mean Value Chronology with Confidence Intervals
chron.stabilized

Build Mean Value Chronology with Stabilized Variance
check.rwl

Check and Validate an rwl Object
ccf.series.rwl

Cross-Correlation between a Series and a Master Chronology
cms

C-Method Standardization
combine.rwl

Combine Tree-Ring Data Sets
co021

Schulman Old Tree No. 1, Mesa Verde
fill.internal.NA

Fill Internal NA
common.interval

Common Interval
insert.ring

Edit a Ring-Width Series
gini.coef

Calculate the Gini Coefficient
interseries.cor

Individual Series Correlation Against a Master Chronology
detrend

Detrend Multiple Ring-Width Series Simultaneously
detrend.series

Detrend a Ring-Width Series
cana157

Twisted Tree Heartrot Hill Standard Chronology
chron

Build Mean Value Chronology
gp.dbh

Ponderosa Pine Stem Diameters and Bark Thickness (gp.rwl)
chron.ars

Build ARSTAN Chronology
gp.rwl

Ponderosa Pine Ring Widths from Gus Pearson Natural Area
caps

Cook and Peters Smoothing Spline with User-Specified Rigidity and Frequency Cutoff
plot.rwl

Plotting Rwl Objects
i.detrend.series

Interactively Detrend a Ring-Width Series
i.detrend

Interactively Detrend Multiple Ring-Width Series
po.to.wc

Convert Pith Offset to Wood Completeness
hanning

Hanning Filter
gp.po

Ponderosa Pine Pith Offsets Corresponding to gp.rwl
read.crn

Read Tucson Format Chronology File
read.compact

Read DPL Compact Format Ring Width File
corr.rwl.seg

Compute Correlations between Series
corr.series.seg

Compute Correlation between a Series and a Master Chronology
rasterPlot

Add Raster Elements to Plot
rcs

Regional Curve Standardization
latexDate

Date Conversion to Character in LaTeX Format
latexify

Convert Character Strings for Use with LaTeX
dplR-defunct

Defunct functions in dplR
plot.crs

Plotting crs Objects
plot.crn

Plot a Tree-Ring Chronology
pointer

Calculates Pointer Years from a Group of Ring-Width Series
powt

Power Transformation of Tree-Ring Data
glk

Calculate Gleichläufigkeit
pass.filt

Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and stop-pass filtering
gp.d2pith

Ponderosa Pine Distance to Pith Corresponding to gp.rwl
nm046

Los Alamos Tree Ring Widths
dplR-package

Dendrochronology Program Library in R
net

Calculate NET
rwl.stats

Calculate Descriptive Summary Statistics on Ring-Width Series
morlet

Perform a Continuous Morlet Wavelet Transform
read.rwl

Read Ring Width File
rwl.report

Do some reporting on a RWL object
read.sheet

Read Ring Widths from a Spreadsheet File
read.ids

Read Site-Tree-Core IDs
read.fh

Read Heidelberg Format Ring Width File
read.tucson.legacy

Read Tucson Format Ring Width File (Legacy Reader)
redfit

Red-Noise Spectra of Time-Series
series.rwl.plot

Plot Series and a Master
sss

Subsample Signal Strength
ssf

Simple Signal Free Standardization
sens1

Calculate Mean Sensitivity
rwi.stats.running

(Running Window) Statistics on Detrended Ring-Width Series
rwl.check

Check the integrity of a RWL object or a Tucson file
sgc

Synchronous Growth Changes
print.redfit

Printing Redfit Results
strip.rwl

Chronology Stripping by EPS
tbrm

Calculate Tukey's Biweight Robust Mean
sea

Superposed Epoch Analysis
seg.plot

Segment Plot
treeMean

Calculate mean across cores in a tree
time.rwl

Retrieve or set the time values for rwl and crn objects
print.rwl.report

Do some reporting on a RWL object
sens2

Calculate Mean Sensitivity on Series with a Trend
tridas.vocabulary

Browse and Check Standard TRiDaS Vocabulary
window.rwl

Take a Span of Years
wc.to.po

Convert Wood Completeness to Pith Offset
read.tridas

Read Tree Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS) File
read.tucson

Read Tucson Format Ring Width File
uuid.gen

UUID Generator
skel.plot

Skeleton Plot
xdate.report

COFECHA-Style Crossdating Report
write.rwl

Write Ring Width File
xdate.floater

Crossdate an undated series
write.crn

Write Tucson Format Chronology File
wa082

Hurricane Ridge, Pacific silver fir
wavelet.plot

Plot a Continuous Wavelet Transform
xskel.ccf.plot

Skeleton Plot for Series and Master with Cross Correlation
spag.plot

Spaghetti Plot
write.tridas

Write Tree Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS) file
write.compact

Write DPL Compact Format Ring Width File
write.tucson

Write Tucson Format Chronology File
write.sheet

Write Ring Widths to a Spreadsheet File
xskel.plot

Skeleton Plot for Series and Master
zof.rwl

European Beech Ring Widths from Zofingen, Switzerland
zof.anc

Ancillary Data Corresponding to zof.rwl