New R Package: respfun
I just created a new R
package to release some functions that I find useful when working with respirometry data:
https://github.com/nicholascarey/respfun
I’ll be adding more soon, but for now it only has one function: split_rate
. We used this in our recent paper in MEPS on social squid metabolism. It’s a function to divide a metabolic rate between a group of individuals based on their masses and a metabolic scaling exponent.
Stay tuned for more additions to the package soon. These will be functions that could easily fit into my other respirometry package respR
but are a wee bit more specialised, and we want to keep that package lean and mean.
I will however make sure the functions in respfun
integrate well with respR
where possible. For instance, split_rate
recognises objects saved from respR::convert_rate
and the rate and units will be automatically extracted. See the Github page for a nice example of how it can be integrated (or %>%
piped) into a respR
workflow.