Thomas Luypaert, Anderson S. Bueno, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Carlos A. Peres, Torbjørn Haugaasen
Welcome to the soundscapeR R-package!
The goal of soundscapeR is to provide a standardized analytical
pipeline for the computation, exploration, visualization, diversity
quantification and comparison of soundscapes using Hill numbers. The
package is designed to work with either continuous or regular-interval
long-duration acoustic recordings, and can quantify the diversity of
soundscapes using a range of different diversity types (richness,
evenness & diversity), spatial scales (alpha, beta and gamma
diversities), and spectro-temporal subsets.
If you are unfamiliar with the soundscapeR workflow, head on over to
Luypaert et
al. (2022)
and take a look at the theoretical concepts. For an example of how the
functions of the soundscapeR package can be used to elucidate
ecological patterns, have a look at Luypaert et
al. (2023).
For the moment, the soundscapeR package is still under development,
and can therefore only be downloaded from GitHub. To download the
development version of our package, please use the code provided below.
## Install from github
## install.packages("remotes") ## if needed
remotes::install_github("ThomasLuypaert/soundscapeR", build_vignettes = TRUE)A comprehensive introduction to soundscapeR and specific examples of
package usage can be found at
thomasluypaert.github.io/soundscapeR_vignette.
For a sneak peak at the workflow and the associated functions, have a
look at this figure:
We are thankful to Oliver Metcalf and Zuzana Burivalova for their input on the package.
The package was developed and written by Thomas Luypaert with contributions from Anderson S. Bueno, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Carlos A. Peres and Torbjørn Haugaasen.
Luypaert et al. (2024). soundscapeR: an R-package for the exploration, visualization, diversity quantification and comparison of soundscapes.