[R-pkgs] ethnobotanyR 0.1.8

[Cory Whitney]

The newest release of the ethnobotanyR package (v0.1.8) calculates common quantitative ethnobotany indices to assess the cultural significance of plant species based on informant consensus. The package closely follows two papers, one on cultural importance indices (Tardio and Pardo-de-Santayana 2008) and another on agrobiodiversity valuation (Whitney, Bahati, and Gebauer 2018). The newest version of ethnobotanyR (0.1.8) has been released with a number of new features:

The goal is to provide an easy-to-use platform for ethnobotanists to work with quantitative ethnobotany assessments. 

Install the released version of ethnobotanyR from CRAN with 
install.packages("ethnobotanyR")

Install the working version of ethnobotanyR from GitHub with 
devtools::install_github("CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR")

Vignettes:	https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ethnobotanyR/vignettes/ethnobotanyr_vignette.html

Tardio, Javier, and Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana. 2008. “Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain) 1.” Economic Botany 62 (1): 24–39.

Whitney, Cory W., Joseph Bahati, and J. Gebauer. 2018. “Ethnobotany and Agrobiodiversity; Valuation of Plants in the Homegardens of Southwestern Uganda.” Ethnobiology Letters 9 (2): 90–100. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.503.