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# devRate package

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## Purpose of the package

The devRate package allows quantifying the relationship between development rate and temperature in ectotherm organisms. 

## How to use the package

You can use the package: 

1.  to get development rate curves as a function of temperature for a specific organism (hundred of examples from the literature are included in the package);

1.  to know which equations exists and which are most used in the literature; and

1.  to relate development rate with temperature from your empirical data, using the equations from the package database.

## Installation instructions

```{r inst01, eval=FALSE}
# from CRAN
install.packages("devRate")

# Or the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("frareb/devRate")
```

## Overview

The devRate package provides three categories of functions:

1.  functions to find development rate information about a specific organism (Order, Family, Genus, species)

1.  functions to relate development rate and temperature, and

1.  functions to plot your empirical datasets and the associated fitted model, and/or to plot development curves from the literature.

## Author's affiliation

UMR EGCE (IRD, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

To cite this package please use: 

```{r auth01, eval=TRUE}
citation("devRate") 
```

and/or:
Rebaudo F., Struelens Q., Dangles O. Modelling temperature-dependent development 
rate and phenology in arthropods: The devRate package for R. *Methods Ecol Evol.* 
2017;00:1-7. \doi{10.1111/2041-210X.12935}