Christopher H. Guiterman
Ellis Q. Margolis
Steven B. Malevich
2018
<p><span>We developed a new software package, </span><span class="monospace">burnr</span><span>, for fire history analysis and plotting in the </span><span class="monospace">R</span><span>statistical programming environment. It was developed for tree-ring fire-scar analysis, but is broadly applicable to other event analyses (e.g., avalanches, frost rings, or culturally modified trees). Our new package can read, write, and manipulate standard tree-ring fire history FHX files, produce fire—demography charts, calculate fire frequency and seasonality statistics, and run superposed epoch analysis (SEA). A key benefit of </span><span class="monospace">burnr</span><span> is that it enables automation of analyses and plotting, especially for large data sets. The package also facilitates creative plotting, mapping, and analyses when combined with the thousands of packages available in </span><span class="monospace">R</span><span>. In this paper, we describe the basic functionality of </span><span class="monospace">burnr</span><span> and introduce users to fire history analyses in </span><span class="monospace">R</span><span>.</span></p>
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10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.005
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Elsevier
burnr: Fire history analysis and graphics in R
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