DESCRIPTION

Package: SileR
Type: Package
Title: Survival Analysis of Elephants Using an Extension of the William Siler's Framework
Version: 0.9.0
Author: Mirkka Lahdenperä [aut], Khyne U Mar [aut], Alexandre Courtiol [aut, cre] and Virpi Lummaa [aut]
Maintainer: Alexandre Courtiol <alexandre.courtiol@gmail.com>
Depends:
    R (>= 3.1.0)
Imports:
    doSNOW,
    foreach,
    nloptr,
    parallel,
    Rcpp
Suggests:
    devtools,
    drat,
    openxlsx,
    R.utils
LinkingTo:
    Rcpp
Description:
    This R package aims at documenting the workflow behind the results from the 
    paper entitled "Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught 
    and captive-born Asian elephants" by Mirkka Lahdenperä, Khyne U Mar, 
    Alexandre Courtiol and Virpi Lummaa (2018) Nature Communications.
    The main goal of the package is to fit survival models derived from a model 
    introduced by Siler ("A competiting-risk model for animal mortality", Ecology, 1979).
    The main differences are that the effect of covariate(s) are being investigated 
    and that the survival models have to be fitted on right and left censored 
    longitudinal data. This package has not been conceived for general use.
    It serves to document the steps of our analysis.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 6.1.0