What is climdex.pcic?

• climdex.pcic is a library for computing the 27 core indices of extreme climate. It was written for the R statistical programming language by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium.

Installation

climdex.pcic is not available from CRAN at this time.

One can install from the source tarball of our official release from PCIC's website

# ensure dependency is installed
> install.packages('PCICt')
> install.packages('https://pacificclimate.org/R/climdex.pcic_1.1-11.tar.gz')

Or using the devtools package, one can install any arbitrary version, commit or branch from GitHub

# if devtools is not installed
> install.packages('devtools')

# Install the master branch for bleeding edge code
> devtools::install_github("pacificclimate/climdex.pcic")

Getting Help

New to programming or to R?

• Read the the Software Carpentry Programming with R lessons
• Read one of the man R Manuals.
• Attend an R Users Group meeting.

Looking for code?

• Explore the development repository on GitHub.

Need help using the package?

• Read the manual

  > library(climdex.pcic)
  Loading required package: PCICt
  > ?climdex.pcic
  

• Create a new issue on the package issue tracker and label it "help wanted"[1].

Want to contribute?

• To report a bug in pcic.climdex use the package issue tracker (after you've read the bug reporting guide).
• To help with development read through the contributor's guide

Still need help?

• Contact [email protected] and let us know what we can do.

[1]

Please know that the pool of people who can provide support for the package is extremely small and time is limited. We don't necessarily have the capacity for long, open-ended user support. If you keep your questions short, specific and direct, there's a greater probability that someone will take on the ticket.