bumbl: Tools for Modeling Bumblebee Colony Growth and Decline

Bumblebee colonies grow during worker production, then decline after switching to production of reproductive individuals (drones and gynes). This package provides tools for modeling and visualizing this pattern by identifying a switchpoint with a growth rate before and a decline rate after the switchpoint. The mathematical models fit by bumbl are described in Crone and Williams (2016) <doi:10.1111/ele.12581>.

Version: 1.0.4
Depends: R (≥ 3.0)
Imports: broom, dplyr, ggplot2, glue, lifecycle, MASS, purrr, rlang, tidyr (≥ 1.0.0)
Suggests: car, covr, knitr, rmarkdown, rsq, testthat (≥ 2.1.0)
Published: 2025-07-29
Author: Eric R. Scott ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Eric R. Scott <scottericr at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Aariq/bumbl/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Aariq/bumbl
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: bumbl citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: bumbl results [issues need fixing before 2025-09-03]

Documentation:

Reference manual: bumbl.html , bumbl.pdf
Vignettes: Modeling bumblebee colony growth with a switch point (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: bumbl_1.0.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: bumbl_1.0.3.zip, r-release: bumbl_1.0.3.zip, r-oldrel: bumbl_1.0.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): bumbl_1.0.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): bumbl_1.0.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): bumbl_1.0.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): bumbl_1.0.3.tgz
Old sources: bumbl archive

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