ecolMod-package {ecolMod}

A practical guide to ecological modelling - using R as a simulation platform

Description

Figures, data sets and examples from the book "A practical guide to ecological modelling - using R as a simulation platform" by Karline Soetaert and Peter MJ Herman (2009). Springer, 372 pp.

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-1-4020-8623-6

All figures from chapter x can be generated by demo(chapx), where x = 1 to 11.

The R-scripts of the model examples discussed in the book are in subdirectory "examples", ordered per chapter.

Solutions to model projects are in the same subdirectories.

Details

Package:	ecolMod
Type:	Package
Version:	1.2.3
Date:	2011-03-15
License:	GNU Public License 2 or above

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert (Maintainer) and Peter M.J. Herman

See Also

• OMEXDIAsteady steady-state application of the OMEXDIA diagenetic model - a fortran DLL

• SCOC a Sediment Community Oxygen Consumption (SCOC) dataset

• Zoogrowtha zooplankton growth dataset

• deepCmin results of the calibration exercise from chapter 4.4.4

• dilution Draws dilution culture setup

• pricefit Pseudo-random search algorithm of Price (1997)

Examples

## Not run: 
## show examples (see respective help pages for details)
example(pricefit)
example(SCOC)

## run demos
demo("chap1") # chapter 1. Introduction
demo("chap2") # chapter 2. Model formulation
demo("chap3") # chapter 3. Spatial components and transport
demo("chap4") # chapter 4. Parameterisation
demo("chap5") # chapter 5. Model solution - analytical methods
demo("chap6") # chapter 6. Model solution - numerical methods
demo("chap7") # chapter 7. Stability and steady-state
demo("chap8") # chapter 8. Multiple time scales and equilibrium processes
demo("chap9") # chapter 9. Discrete time models
demo("chap10") # chapter 10. Dynamic programming
demo("chap11") # chapter 11. Testing and validating the model

## open the directory with source code of demos
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="ecolMod"), "/demo", sep=""))

## open the directory with book examples
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="ecolMod"), "/doc/examples", sep=""))

## ecolMod vignette:
vignette("ecolMod")

## End(Not run)