MorphoTools2: an R package for multivariate morphometric analysis

Marek Šlenker; Petr Koutecký; Karol Marhold

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac173

MorphoTools2: an R package for multivariate morphometric analysis

Bioinformatics. 2022 May 13;38(10):2954-2955. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac173.

Authors

Marek Šlenker^{1

2}, Petr Koutecký³, Karol Marhold^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovakia.
² Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ-128 01 Prague, Czechia.
³ Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czechia.

PMID: 35561177
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac173

Abstract

Summary: The package MorphoTools2 is intended for multivariate analyses of morphological data. Commonly used tools are missing or scattered across several R packages. The new package, in order to make the workflow convenient and fast, wraps available statistical and graphical tools and provides a comprehensive framework for checking and manipulating input data, core statistical analyses and a wide palette of functions designed to visualize results.

Availability and implementation: Stable version is available from CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=MorphoTools2. The development version is available from the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/MarekSlenker/MorphoTools2. The software is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence (v.3).

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Multivariate Analysis
Software*
Workflow