Package: recruitlag
Type: Package
Title: Can Episodic Recruitment be a Delayed Consequence of Continuous
        Reproduction?
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: 
    person("Raymond L.", "Tremblay", email = "raymond.tremblay@gmail.com",
           role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8588-4372"))
Description: Tests whether an episodic recruitment record can be the delayed
    consequence of a reproductive record, under any distributed lag. A delay
    is a convolution, and a convolution is a weighted average, so the
    concentration in time of expected recruitment can never exceed that of
    reproduction: reproduction's own concentration is a ceiling. The package
    computes that ceiling by searching families of lag weights (pure delays,
    windows, geometric decay and Dirichlet draws), calibrates the pooled
    comparison against negative-binomial counts to show what it can and
    cannot refute, and runs the host-level (replicate-unit) test in which the
    null is the lag hypothesis exactly as it is asserted: expected
    recruitment on each unit is that unit's own lagged reproduction, scaled to
    its own total. Uncertainty on the exceedance comes by three routes, a
    cluster bootstrap over units, a Bayesian bootstrap (Rubin 1981
    <doi:10.1214/aos/1176345338>) and a negative-binomial model of the counts
    fitted with 'Stan' through 'cmdstanr'; recruit_triage() asks whether a
    first sighting is a recruit or a plant returning from dormancy. Plotting
    functions draw the ceiling strip, the lag profiles against the observed
    counts, the calibration and a forest plot of the intervals. The census
    data on the epiphytic orchid Lepanthes eltoroensis analysed in the
    companion paper are included.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
LazyData: true
Depends: R (>= 4.1)
Imports: ggplot2, rlang, stats, tibble, tools, utils
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, dplyr, tidyr, cmdstanr
        (>= 0.6.0), posterior
Additional_repositories: https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/RaymondLTremblay/recruitlag
BugReports: https://github.com/RaymondLTremblay/recruitlag/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-05 18:30:27 UTC; rlt
Author: Raymond L. Tremblay [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-4372>)
Maintainer: Raymond L. Tremblay <raymond.tremblay@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-10-15 17:40:02 UTC
