Package: PNC
Type: Package
Title: Evaluating Phylogeny as a Proxy for Ecological Similarity
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-8-29
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Yan", family = "He", email = "heyaneco@163.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),person(given = "Yu", family = "Xia", role = "aut"),person(given = "Rui", family = "Yang", role = "aut"),person(given = "Lingfeng", family = "Mao", role = "aut"))
Maintainer: Yan He <heyaneco@163.com>
Description: Provides a trait-based workflow for evaluating whether
        phylogenetic relatedness is informative about similarity in
        measured quantitative traits within focal species pools and
        across multiple communities. Functions support trait data
        integration, taxon-specific trait extraction, coverage
        assessment, optional principal component analysis, and
        estimation of phylogenetic signal using Pagel's lambda or
        Blomberg's K. Curated quantitative trait datasets are included
        for plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
        Paired simulations assess how observed patterns of missing
        trait data affect Pagel's lambda estimates and significance
        classifications for individual traits. Methods for quantifying
        phylogenetic signal are based on Pagel (1999)
        <doi:10.1038/44766>, Blomberg et al. (2003)
        <doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x>, and Münkemüller et
        al. (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00196.x>.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: ape, geiger, phytools, stats, utils
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-28 12:49:50 UTC; root
Author: Yan He [aut, cre], Yu Xia [aut], Rui Yang [aut], Lingfeng Mao
        [aut]
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-29 14:34:21 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/PNC
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 0b9df002a3ada6f557b55ea338c0fd1ba91105c2