UsefulPlants is an R package primarily developed as supporting
software for the results and analyses conducted in the article “The
global distribution of plants used by humans” (Pironon et al. 2024).
It relies upon the R package rsdm (Ondo 2024) for building species
distribution models (SDMs) of plants used by humans at large scale, thus
it helps to streamline global biodiversity analyses, improve code
accessibility and reproducibility.
Make sure to have R or Rstudio installed on your machine. Some R packages need to be compiled from source, so if you are on Windows, you need to install Rtools too.
Then, install and load the package:
devtools::install_github("IanOndo/UsefulPlants")
# optionally rebuild the vignettes by setting , build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual")
library(UsefulPlants)Please follow the vignettes from the package rsdm for gathering and curating plants occurrence records and for modelling species distributions.
The following vignettes are available, but need to be (re-)built if necessary.
- Mapping species distribution, richness and endemism
- Exploring the latitudinal gradient of utilised plants species richness and endemism
- Exploring spatial correlations between utilised plants species richness/endemism and human cultural diversity (incoming soon !)
Ondo, Ian. 2024. rsdm: A R package for streamlining large-scale studies of species distributions and biodiversity patterns. https://github.com/IanOndo/rsdm.
Pironon, S., I. Ondo, M. Diazgranados, R. Allkin, A. C. Baquero, R. Cámara-Leret, C. Canteiro, et al. 2024. “The Global Distribution of Plants Used by Humans.” Science 383 (6680): 293–97. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg8028.