bbousuite

May 4, 2025 · View on GitHub

The goal of bbousuite is to make it easy to install and load the (bbou) suite of R packages for Boreal cariBOU.

The bbousuite is a set of R packages to facilitate simulation and analysis of boreal caribou survival and recruitment data to estimate population growth.

It consists of:

bboudata, a collection of simulated and anonymized empirical survival and recruitment datasets.
bboutools, a set of functions to estimate population growth in a Bayesian or Maximum Likelihood (ML) framework, implemented under the hood using the Nimble R package.
bboushiny, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to bboutools.
bbouretro, a set of functions to estimate population growth using traditional frequentist methods.
bbousims, a set of functions to simulate survival and recruitment data from hypothetical radio-collaring and composition surveys.

Each R package has a website with function documentation and a ‘Get Started’ guide.
If you are completely new to the bbou suite, we recommend taking a look at the bboutools ‘Get Started’ guide as this demonstrates core functionality and methods.

There are also several vignettes, including bboutools analytical methods and prior selection, bbouretro analytical methods, using bbousims with bboutools, and comparison of Bayesian and traditional method estimates with empirical and simulated data.

Installation

You can install the latest version of bbousuite from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("poissonconsulting/bbousuite")

Load

To load bbousuite

library(bbousuite)
#> Attaching: bboudata bbouretro bboushiny bbousims bboutools bbousuite
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'bbousuite'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:bboutools':
#> 
#>     licensing_md

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