categorical_analyses

Performs Chi-squared tests and generates proportional bar plots for categorical variables.

internal

Provides functions to analyze and visualize meristic and mensural
phenotypic data in a comparative framework. The package implements an
automated pipeline that summarizes traits, identifies diagnostic variables
among groups, performs multivariate and univariate statistical analyses, and
produces publication-ready graphics. Earlier implementation are
described in Torres (2025) <doi:10.64898/2025.12.18.695244> (v1.0.0)
and Torres (2026) <doi:10.1002/ece3.73111> (v2.0.0).

Javier Torres

Orangutan

Automated Analysis of Phenotypic Data

categorical_analyses function

<dl><dt>data</dt>
<dd>Data frame containing the variables</dd>
<dt>cat_vars</dt>
<dd>Character vector of categorical variable names</dd>
<dt>output_dir</dt>
<dd>Directory to save results</dd>
<dt>palette_name</dt>
<dd>RColorBrewer palette name for categorical fills (default: "Paired")</dd>
<dt>custom_colors</dt>
<dd>Optional named vector of colors for species (not used for categorical fills)</dd></dl>

Arguments

Categorical Data Analysis — categorical_analyses

<dl>

<dt>data</dt>
<dd>Data frame containing the variables</dd>


<dt>cat_vars</dt>
<dd>Character vector of categorical variable names</dd>


<dt>output_dir</dt>
<dd>Directory to save results</dd>


<dt>palette_name</dt>
<dd>RColorBrewer palette name for categorical fills (default: "Paired")</dd>


<dt>custom_colors</dt>
<dd>Optional named vector of colors for species (not used for categorical fills)</dd>

</dl>

categorical_analyses: Categorical Data Analysis

Description

Usage

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