Type: Package
Package: BLA
Title: Boundary Line Analysis
Version: 1.0.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Chawezi", "Miti", , "mitichawezi14@gmail.com", role = c("cre", "aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7776-8366")),
    person("Richard M", "Lark", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2571-8521")),
    person("Alice E", "Milne", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4509-0578")),
    person("Ken E", "Giller", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5998-4652")),
    person("Victor O", "Sadras", role = "ctb"),
    person("University of Nottingham/Rothamsted Research", role = "fnd")
  )
Description: Fits boundary line models to datasets as proposed by Webb
        (1972) <doi:10.1080/00221589.1972.11514472> and makes
        statistical inferences about their parameters. Provides
        additional tools for testing datasets for evidence of boundary
        presence and selecting initial starting values for model
        optimization prior to fitting the boundary line models. It also
        includes tools for conducting post-hoc analyses such as
        predicting boundary values and identifying the most limiting
        factor (Miti, Milne, Giller, Lark (2024)
        <doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109365>). This ensures a comprehensive
        analysis for datasets that exhibit upper boundary structures.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://chawezimiti.github.io/BLA/
BugReports: https://github.com/chawezimiti/BLA/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.0)
Imports: data.table, MASS, mvtnorm, numDeriv, stats, concaveman
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
        libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev
        libnode-dev
Repository: https://chawezimiti.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-12-22 01:57:40 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/chawezimiti/bla
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 83aee691b76ab355acfd212ffdbbaac9dfb3c3d7
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-21 04:55:12 UTC; root
Author: Chawezi Miti [cre, aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-8366>),
  Richard M Lark [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-8521>),
  Alice E Milne [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4509-0578>),
  Ken E Giller [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-4652>),
  Victor O Sadras [ctb],
  University of Nottingham/Rothamsted Research [fnd]
Maintainer: Chawezi Miti <mitichawezi14@gmail.com>