pavo

An R package for the spectral and spatial analysis of color patterns

Currently maintained by Rafael Maia, Thomas White, and Hugo Gruson.

About

A set of functions and tools for the analysis of color data in a unified framework.

Need help with the package?

• Click the links above for help with specific functions.
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Citing pavo

The manuscript describing the package has been published and is free to access:

Maia R., Eliason C.M., Bitton P.-P., Doucet S.M. and Shawkey M.D. 2013. pavo: an R Package for the analysis, visualization and organization of spectral data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4(10):609-613. [doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12069] (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12069/abstract)

Install

this is the development page for pavo. The stable release is available from CRAN. Simply use install.packages('pavo') to install.

If you want to install the bleeding edge version of pavo, you can:

• use Hadley Wickham's devtools:

install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('rmaia/pavo')
require(pavo)

• download files from github and install using $R CMD INSTALL or, from within R:

install.packages(path,type='source', repos=NULL)