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A vignette which guides you through all functions of the package is availablehere.

The packageforceR has originally been written for insect bite force data preparation and analysis, but it can be used for any kind of time series measurements. Functions include

• loading, plotting, and cropping of data
• correction of charge amplifier drifts
• correction of baseline drifts
• reduction of sampling frequency
• automatic extraction of single peaks
• rescaling (normalization) of curves
• reduction of curves to 100 time steps each
• finding of best polynomial fits to describe all curves

To install the stable version offorceR fromCRAN use the following command:

install.packages('forceR')

You can also install the current development version offorceR from theGitHub repository:

require(devtools)devtools::install_github("https://github.com/Peter-T-Ruehr/forceR")

Check out theNews page offorceR.

If you use this package, please cite the original publication:

Rühr, PT & Blanke, A (2022): forceX andforceR: a mobile setup and R package to measure and analyze a wide range of animal closing forces.Methods in Ecology and Evolution13(9): pp. 1938--1948. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13909.