MadRat Soil Organic Carbon Budget Library

R package mrsoil, version 2.3.5

Purpose and Functionality

This packages provides functions for soil organic carbon budget for mineral soils using the steady-state method (Tier 2) of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPP Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Installation

For installation of the most recent package version an additional repository has to be added in R:

options(repos = c(CRAN = "@CRAN@", pik = "https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/r/packages"))

The additional repository can be made available permanently by adding the line above to a file called .Rprofile stored in the home folder of your system (Sys.glob("~") in R returns the home directory).

After that the most recent version of the package can be installed using install.packages:

install.packages("mrsoil")

Package updates can be installed using update.packages (make sure that the additional repository has been added before running that command):

update.packages()

Questions / Problems

In case of questions / problems please contact Kristine Karstens karstens@pik-potsdam.de.

Citation

To cite package mrsoil in publications use:

Karstens K, Dietrich J (2024). mrsoil: MadRat Soil Organic Carbon Budget Library. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4317933 (URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4317933), R package version 2.3.5, <URL: https://github.com/pik-piam/mrsoil>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
 title = {mrsoil: MadRat Soil Organic Carbon Budget Library},
 author = {Kristine Karstens and Jan Philipp Dietrich},
 year = {2024},
 note = {R package version 2.3.5},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4317933},
 url = {https://github.com/pik-piam/mrsoil},
}