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DAISIEmainland: Simulating and analysing macroevolution on islands with a dynamic mainland

1 Installation

You can install the released version of DAISIEmainland from github with:

# install.packages("remotes") # install remotes package if not installed
remotes::install_github("joshwlambert/DAISIEmainland")

The DAISIEmainland package has several dependencies (the entire list can be found in the DESCRIPTION file). Most of these are on CRAN and can be installed with install.packages(). However, the DAISIE package (Etienne et al. 2022) requires a more up-to-date version than available on CRAN and need to be installed from github:

remotes::install_github("rsetienne/DAISIE")

Load the DAISIEmainland package with the library() function. This will also load the package dependencies, specifically the DAISIE package which will be used later on for parameter estimation by fitting maximum likelihood models.

DAISIEmainland is currently not hosted on CRAN and thus cannot be installed using install.packages().

The package was developed using R version >= 4. Therefore, it is recommended to use an R version at least as recent as R 4.0.0. The package is tested using continuous integration on the release version of R and the development version of R. Therefore, any issues with running DAISIEmainland functions on older versions of R will not be patched.