EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections

Aravind, J.¹, Kaur, V.², Wankhede, D. P.³ and Nanjundan, J.⁴

1. Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
2. Division of Germplasm Evaluation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
3. Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
4. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

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Description

Implements various quality evaluation statistics to assess the value of plant germplasm core collections using qualitative and quantitative phenotypic trait data according to Odong et al. (2015) doi:10.1007/s00122-012-1971-y.

Installation

The package can be installed from CRAN as follows:

# Install from CRAN
install.packages('EvaluateCore', dependencies=TRUE)

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/EvaluateCore")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='EvaluateCore')

Links

CRAN page

Github page

Documentation website

Zenodo DOI

Citing EvaluateCore

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("EvaluateCore")

To cite the R package 'EvaluateCore' in publications use:

  Aravind, J., Kaur, V., Wankhede, D. P. and Nanjundan, J. (2020).  EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core
  Collections. R package version 0.1.1.9000,
  https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=EvaluateCore.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections},
    author = {J. Aravind and Vikender Kaur and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede and J. Nanjundan},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 0.1.1.9000},
    note = {https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/},
    note = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=EvaluateCore},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use it, please
support the project by citing the package.