Package: ecocbo
Title: Calculating Optimum Sampling Effort in Community Ecology
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Edlin", "Guerra-Castro", , "edlinguerra@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3529-4507")),
    person("Arturo", "Sanchez-Porras", , "sp.arturo@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1691-286X"))
  )
Description: A system for calculating the optimal sampling effort,
        based on the ideas of "Ecological cost-benefit optimization" as
        developed by A. Underwood (1997, ISBN 0 521 55696 1). Data is
        obtained from simulated ecological communities with prep_data()
        which formats and arranges the initial data, and then the
        optimization follows the following procedure of four functions:
        (1) prep_data() takes the original dataset and creates
        simulated sets that can be used as a basis for estimating
        statistical power and type II error. (2) sim_beta() is used to
        estimate the statistical power for the different sampling
        efforts specified by the user. (3) sim_cbo() calculates then
        the optimal sampling effort, based on the statistical power and
        the sampling costs. Additionally, (4) scompvar() calculates the
        variation components necessary for (5) Underwood_cbo() to
        calculate the optimal combination of number of sites and
        samples depending on either an economic budget or on a desired
        statistical accuracy. Lastly, (6) plot_power() helps the user
        visualize the results of sim_beta().
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/arturoSP/ecocbo
BugReports: https://github.com/arturoSP/ecocbo/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Imports: ggplot2, ggpubr, stats, rlang, tibble, dplyr, tidyr,
        tidyselect, parabar, parallelly, vegan, SSP (>= 1.1.0), plotly
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
LazyData: true
Suggests: knitr,rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libssl-dev
Repository: https://arturosp.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-03-28 00:12:46 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/arturosp/ecocbo
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ff4f08876f5ffb4b26e1e5de42d8cc33248fe720
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-20 09:46:00 UTC; root
Author: Edlin Guerra-Castro [aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3529-4507>),
  Arturo Sanchez-Porras [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1691-286X>)
Maintainer: Arturo Sanchez-Porras <sp.arturo@gmail.com>