Package: dssd 1.0.3

Laura Marshall

dssd: Distance Sampling Survey Design

Creates survey designs for distance sampling surveys. These designs can be assessed for various effort and coverage statistics. Once the user is satisfied with the design characteristics they can generate a set of transects to use in their distance sampling survey. Many of the designs implemented in this R package were first made available in our 'Distance' for Windows software and are detailed in Chapter 7 of Advanced Distance Sampling, Buckland et. al. (2008, ISBN-13: 978-0199225873). Find out more about estimating animal/plant abundance with distance sampling at <https://distancesampling.org/>.

Authors:Laura Marshall [aut, cre], Rexstad Eric [ctb]

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NEWS

# Install 'dssd' in R:
install.packages('dssd', repos = c('https://distancedevelopment.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/distancedevelopment/dssd/issues

On CRAN:

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Exports:calculate.effortgenerate.transectsget.coveragemake.coveragemake.designmake.regionplotrun.coverageshowwrite.transects

Dependencies:classclassIntclicpp11DBIe1071farverggplot2gluegtableisobandKernSmoothlabelinglifecycleMASSproxyR6RColorBrewerRcpprlangs2S7scalessfunitsvctrsviridisLitewithrwk

Getting Started with dssd

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Last update: 2025-04-23
Started: 2019-06-28

Multiple Strata in dssd

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Last update: 2025-04-23
Started: 2019-07-09

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Distance Sampling Survey Design (dssd)dssd-package dssd
Survey effort for distance samplingcalculate.effort
Class "Coverage.Grid"Coverage.Grid-class
S4 generic method to generate an instance of a designgenerate.transects generate.transects,Line.Transect.Design-method generate.transects,Point.Transect.Design-method
Returns the area of the regionget.area get.area,Region-method
S4 generic method to extract coverage scoresget.coverage get.coverage,Survey.Design-method
Class "Line.Transect" extends Class "Transect"Line.Transect-class
Class "Line.Transect.Design" extends Class "Survey.Design"Line.Transect.Design-class
Creates a Coverage.Grid objectmake.coverage
Creates a Survey.Design objectmake.design
Creates a Region objectmake.region
Plotplot,Coverage.Grid,ANY-method
Plotplot,Line.Transect,ANY-method plot,Point.Transect,ANY-method
Plotplot,Region,ANY-method plot,Region,Coverage.Grid-method plot,Region,Transect-method
Plotplot,Survey.Design,ANY-method
Class "Point.Transect" extends Class "Survey"Point.Transect-class
Virtual Class "Point.Transect.Design" extends Class "Survey.Design"Point.Transect.Design-class
Class "Region"Region-class
run.coveragerun.coverage
Class "Segmemt.Transect" extends Class "Line.Transect"Segment.Transect-class
Class "Segment.Transect.Design" extends Class "Survey.Design"Segment.Transect.Design-class
Showshow,Line.Transect-method show,Point.Transect-method
showshow,Survey.Design-method
Virtual Class "Survey.Design"Survey.Design-class
S4 Class "Transect"Transect-class
Writes transects to filewrite.transects