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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, and model
species phenology using an individual-based approach.

## 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);

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

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

4.  to make phenology simulations using temperature time series and
    thermal performance curves.

## Installation instructions

``` r
# from CRAN
install.packages("devRate")

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

## Overview

The devRate package provides four categories of functions:

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

2.  functions to relate development rate and temperature, and

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

4.  functions to perform simulations from models and temperature time
    series.

## Author’s affiliation

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

To cite this package please use:

``` r
citation("devRate") 
#> To cite package 'devRate' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Rebaudo F, Regnier B (2025). _devRate: Quantify the Relationship
#>   Between Development Rate and Temperature in Ectotherms_. R package
#>   version 0.2.6, <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=devRate>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {devRate: Quantify the Relationship Between Development Rate and Temperature in Ectotherms},
#>     author = {Francois Rebaudo and Baptiste Regnier},
#>     year = {2025},
#>     note = {R package version 0.2.6},
#>     url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=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.
