EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections

Aravind, J.¹, Kaur, V.², Wankhede, D. P.³ and Nanjundan, J.⁴

1. Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
2. Division of Germplasm Evaluation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
3. Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
4. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

Description

Implements various quality evaluation statistics to assess the value of plant germplasm core collections using qualitative and quantitative phenotypic trait data according to Odong et al. (2015) doi:10.1007/s00122-012-1971-y.

Installation

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/EvaluateCore")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='EvaluateCore')

Links

Github page

Documentation website

Citing EvaluateCore

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("EvaluateCore")

To cite the R package 'EvaluateCore' in publications use:

  Aravind, J., Kaur, V., Wankhede, D. P. and Nanjundan, J. (2020).  EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core
  Collections. R package version 0.1.1, https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {EvaluateCore: Quality Evaluation of Core Collections},
    author = {J. Aravind and Vikender Kaur and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede and J. Nanjundan},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 0.1.1},
    note = {https://aravind-j.github.io/EvaluateCore/},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use it, please
support the project by citing the package.