Package: Linda
Type: Package
Title: Line Transect-Based Nearest Neighbor Distance Analysis
Version: 1.3
Date: 2026-06-28
Description: Conducting Line transect-based one-dimensional nearest neighbor distance and conducting hypothesis
 testing related to local distributional aggregation pattern of species. The reason that such a package is needed is
 because traditional two-dimensional nearest neighbor distance is not applicable when biodiversity data are sampled via
 optimal ecological survey methods, like line transects. In comparison to the entire studied region, line transect-collected local biodiversity data are spatially constrained
 and sampling-limited. To this end, two-dimensional nearest neighbor distance would tend to over-estimate  distributional aggregation pattern of species when using this limited biodiversity information.
 Accordingly, one-dimensional nearest neighbor distance is needed and the associated statistical testing should be established for analyzing
 line transect-derived biodiversity data.
Authors@R: c(
    person("Youhua", "Chen", email = "chenyh@cib.ac.cn", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Tsung-Jen", "Shen", email = "tjshen@nchu.edu.tw", role = c("aut")),
    person("Xiaoqin", "Shi", email = "shixiaoqing21@mails.ucas.ac.cn", role = c("ctb"))
    )
Maintainer: Youhua Chen <chenyh@cib.ac.cn>
License: GPL-3
Imports: doParallel, foreach,iterators,parallel,stats
Encoding: UTF-8
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-28 15:14:27 UTC; lloony
Author: Youhua Chen [aut, cre],
  Tsung-Jen Shen [aut],
  Xiaoqin Shi [ctb]
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-04 07:20:02 UTC
Built: R 4.5.2; ; 2026-07-04 10:56:40 UTC; unix
