The trident package is dedicated to dental microwear texture analysis, allowing to further analyze the results using a variety of methods. It includes functions to measure microwear texture, to transform the data, to rank variables, as well as a complete shiny app.
1 - Check that you have R > 4.0 and a compatible R Studio version installed
2 - Windows users: check that you have a matching version of RTools installed
3 - Open the "InstallTrident.Rproj" in trident/InstallTrident_1.3.8.zip
4 - Install all the dependencies:
install.packages(c("car", "DescTools", "doSNOW", "dplyr", "DT", "factoextra", "FactoMineR", "foreach", "ggpubr", "ggplot2", "MASS", "nortest", "parallel", "picante", "plyr", "shiny", "shinyjs", "shinyFiles", "snow", "stats", "stringr", "utils"))
5 - Install the package from the tar.gz file in the project:
install.packages("trident_1.3.8.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
You can start using the shiny app using the following line in your R IDE:
trident::trident.app()
There is also an updated documentation on this repository: trident/supplementaryMaterial_02_userManual_26july2023.pdf
You can report issues here: https://github.com/nialsiG/trident/issues
Initial release of trident