Package: CharAnalysis
Type: Package
Title: Peak Detection and Fire History from Sediment-Charcoal Records
Version: 2.0.2
Date: 2026-04-27
Authors@R: person("Philip", "Higuera",
    email   = "philip.higuera@umontana.edu",
    role    = c("aut", "cre"),
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1278-4095"))
Description: A program for reconstructing local fire histories from
    high-resolution, continuously sampled lake-sediment charcoal records.
    'CharAnalysis' decomposes a charcoal record into low- and high-frequency
    components and uses locally defined thresholds to separate fire signal
    from noise, following the approach of Higuera et al. (2009)
    <doi:10.1890/07-2019.1>, with underlying assumptions and rationale
    described in Higuera et al. (2010) <doi:10.1071/WF09134>. The package is
    designed for macroscopic charcoal records with contiguous sampling fine
    enough to resolve individual fire events, and is not appropriate for
    low-resolution or discontinuously sampled records. See the package URL
    for the User's Guide and application examples.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
URL: https://github.com/phiguera/CharAnalysis,
        https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19304064
BugReports: https://github.com/phiguera/CharAnalysis/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)
Imports: MASS, graphics, stats, utils, zoo
Suggests: ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0), patchwork, ggtext, readxl, knitr,
        rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-04-27 22:30:53 UTC; philip.higuera
Author: Philip Higuera [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1278-4095>)
Maintainer: Philip Higuera <philip.higuera@umontana.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 20:30:20 UTC
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