marelac-package {marelac}R Documentation

Datasets, constants, conversion factors, and utilities for the marine and lacustrine sciences

Description

R-package marelac has been designed as a tool for use by scientists working in the marine and lacustrine sciences.

It contains:

Details

Package: marelac
Type: Package
Version: 1.2
Date: 2008-11-031
License: GNU Public License 2 or above

The package contains lecture notes for novice R-users. These have been written as an introduction to R , to prepare our students for the ecological modelling course (given by K. Soetaert and F. Meysman) in which R is used to implement and solve the models.

To open the lecture notes, copy-paste this sentence to R:

browseURL(paste(system.file(package="marelac"), "/lecture/UsingR.pdf", sep=""))

which will open a PDF generated with WORD (microsoft)

or type vignette("UsingR") which will open a LaTeX-generated file.

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert (Maintainer)

Filip Meysman

Examples

## Not run: 
## show examples (see respective help pages for details)
example(Bathymetry)
example(Constants)
example(SCOC)
example(mol.vol)

## open the directory with documents
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="marelac"), "/doc", sep=""))

## show document with the introduction to R - one file, a pdf generated with WORD:
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="marelac"), "/lecture/UsingR.pdf", sep=""))

## the introduction to R - a vignette
vignette("UsingR")

## and the answers
vignette("Answers")

edit(vignette("UsingR"))
edit(vignette("Answers"))

## End(Not run)

[Package marelac version 1.2-1 Index]