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ReLTER is an R package that provides access to DEIMS-SDR, allowing to interact with software implemented by eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI) and improving the data/information shared among the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. This package was conceived within eLTER H2020 project and will help advance the development of European Long-Term Ecosystem Research Infrastructures (eLTER RI).

The ReLTER package functions in particular allows to:

Functions currently implemented are derived from the discussion of the needs declared by eLTER users community.

The ReLTER package will follow the progress of eLTER-RI infrastructure and evolve with improvements and development of new tools.

πŸ“” Citation

To cite ReLTER please use: Alessandro Oggioni, Micha Silver, Luigi Ranghetti & Paolo Tagliolato. (2023). ReLTER: An Interface for the eLTER Community (v2.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5576813

or:

@software{alessandro_oggioni_2021_5576813,
  author       = {Alessandro Oggioni and Micha Silver and Luigi Ranghetti and Paolo Tagliolato},
  title        = {ReLTER: An Interface for the eLTER Community},
  month        = jan,
  year         = 2023,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v2.1},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.5576813},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5576813}
}

πŸ“– Documentation

Visit the ReLTER website at docs.ropensci.org/ReLTER/ for further documentation, examples, and installation of the package.

The manual of ReLTER package could be found here.

⏬ Installation

You can install the main version of ReLTER from GitHub with:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/ReLTER")
library(ReLTER)

If you want to install different package branch (e.g.Β β€˜dev’) can you use this command:

devtools::install_github('https://github.com/ropensci/ReLTER', ref = 'dev')

The ReLTER package is part of the R-universe community and it can be installed also use this command:

utils::install.packages("ReLTER", repos = "https://ropensci.r-universe.dev")

Alternatively {ReLTER} can be used in a Docker container.

If you wish to help develop this package, please follow the contributing guidelines.

πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Persons involved πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

Alessandro Oggioni https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-219X (CNR, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment - IREA)

Micha Silver https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-1325 (Ben Gurion University - BGU)

Luigi Ranghetti https:://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-5188 (CNR, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment - IREA)

Paolo Tagliolato https:://orcid.org/0000-0002-0261-313X (CNR, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment - IREA)

For a exhaustive list of contributors please visit authors page.

🏒 Contributing organizations

CNR-IREA

BGU

πŸ‘ Acknowledgements

This work has been partially funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the H2020 eLTER-Plus Project grant agreement No 871128.

Thanks to the reviewers and the editor (more about authors) for their work.