germinationmetrics: Seed Germination Indices and Curve Fitting 
Version : 0.1.8.9000; Copyright (C) 2017-2024: ICAR-NBPGR; License: GPL2|GPL-3
Description
Provides functions to compute various germination indices such as germinability, median germination time, mean germination time, mean germination rate, speed of germination, Timson’s index, germination value, coefficient of uniformity of germination, uncertainty of germination process, synchrony of germination etc. from germination count data. Includes functions for fitting cumulative seed germination curves using four-parameter hill function and computation of associated parameters. See the vignette for more, including full list of citations for the methods implemented.
Installation
The package can be installed from CRAN as follows:
if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
install.packages('germinationmetrics', dependencies=TRUE)The development version can be installed from github as follows:
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/germinationmetrics")Detailed tutorial
For a detailed tutorial (vignette) on how to used this package type:
browseVignettes(package = 'germinationmetrics')The vignette for the latest version is also available online.
CRAN checks
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Citing germinationmetrics
To cite the methods in the package use:
citation("germinationmetrics")To cite the R package 'germinationmetrics' in publications use:
Aravind, J., Vimala Devi, S., Radhamani, J., Jacob, S. R., and
Kalyani Srinivasan (). germinationmetrics: Seed Germination Indices
and Curve Fitting. R package version 0.1.8.9000,
https://github.com/aravind-j/germinationmetricshttps://cran.r-project.org/package=germinationmetrics.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {germinationmetrics: Seed Germination Indices and Curve Fitting},
author = {J. Aravind and S. {Vimala Devi} and J. Radhamani and Sherry Rachel Jacob and {Kalyani Srinivasan}},
note = {R package version 0.1.8.9000 https://aravind-j.github.io/germinationmetrics/ https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=germinationmetrics},
}
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.
