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plantTracker

Extract Demographic and Competition Data from Fine-Scale Maps

v1.2.1 · Jan 9, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Extracts growth, survival, and local neighborhood density information from repeated, fine-scale maps of organism occurrence. Further information about this package can be found in our journal article, "plantTracker: An R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into demographic data" published in 2022 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Stears, et al., 2022) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13950>.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'Suggested_plantTracker_Workflow.Rmd' using rmarkdown
Warning in options[opts_class] <- Map(code_folding_class, options[opts_class],  :
  number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement l
...[truncated]...
not a multiple of replacement length
--- finished re-building 'Using_the_plantTracker_trackSpp_function.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'Suggested_plantTracker_Workflow.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 15, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 10, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

tests

Running 'spelling.R' [0s]
  Running 'testthat.R' [22s]
Running the tests in 'tests/testthat.R' failed.
Complete output:
  > library(testthat)
  > library(plantTracker)
  > 
  > test_check("plantTracker")
  Site: AZ
  
  -- Quadrat: SG2
  
  ---- Spec
...[truncated]...
- Quadrat: SG4
  
  ---- Species: Bouteloua rothrockii
  Note: Individuals in year 1927 have a value of 'NA' in the 'survives_tplus1' and 'size_tplus1' columns because 1927 is the last year of sampling in this quadrat.
  Site: AZ
  
  -- Quadrat: SG2
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 31, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 27, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'Suggested_plantTracker_Workflow.Rmd' using rmarkdown
Warning in options[opts_class] <- Map(code_folding_class, options[opts_class],  :
  number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement l
...[truncated]...
not a multiple of replacement length
--- finished re-building 'Using_the_plantTracker_trackSpp_function.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'Suggested_plantTracker_Workflow.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies igraph Matrix sf units plantTracker

Version History

4 tracked
new 1.2.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Jan 9, 2026
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.1 diff May 4, 2023
new 1.0.1 Jan 10, 2023