The ConR package aims at assisting the preliminary assessment of
species conservation status based on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria. More
specifically, it helps users to calculate the population metrics related
to the IUCN criteria A, B, C and D and to assign one of the IUCN
categories (i.e. EX, EW, CR, EN, VU, NT, LC, DD). It was developed speed
up the assessment of hundreds to thousands of species at the same time.
The ideas behind this package, and its testing involved many people and institutes.
The package it not available anymore on CRAN because of the recent retirement of various packages (rgdal, rgeos). The new version is nevertheless available on github and will soon be available on CRAN.
To install the github version :
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("gdauby/ConR")
First step. Install R.
Attach ConR package This should be done everytime you open an R session.
library(ConR)
Help files Any function in R is documented by a help file which can be obtained by the following code:
?EOO.computing
?AOO.computing
?subpop.comp
?locations.comp
?criterion_A
?EOO.sensitivity
A mode detailed manual on how to use this package is available here.
The development of this package was supported by:
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the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 795114 (THREAT project)
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CESAB (Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity). Research program of the FRB (Foundation for Research on Biodiversity) under the RAINBIO project.
G. Dauby & R. A. F. de Lima (2023). ConR: Computation of Parameters Used in Preliminary Assessment of Species Conservation Status. R package (version 2.1.0).
Other R packages related to IUCN assessments: