LEAVcore: Constitution of Core Collections using Length of Encoded Attribute Values

Version : 0.1.0; Copyright (C) 2024-2026: ICAR-NBPGR; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Aravind, J., Roy, Suman and Singh, Anju M.

Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.

Description

Construct core collections using the information measure ‘Length of Encoded Attribute Values’ (LEAV) using qualitative and/or quantitative trait data as described by Balakrishnan and Suresh (2001a) <https://indianjournals.com/article/ijpgr-14-1-006> and (2001b) <https://indianjournals.com/article/ijpgr-14-3-005>.

Installation

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/LEAVcore")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='LEAVcore')

Links

Github page

Documentation website

Citing LEAVcore

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("LEAVcore")

To cite the R package 'LEAVcore' in publications use:

  Aravind, J., Roy, S., and Singh, A. M. (2026).  LEAVcore: Constitution of Core Collections using Length
  of Encoded Attribute Values. R package version 0.1.0, https://aravind-j.github.io/LEAVcore/.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {LEAVcore: Constitution of Core Collections using Length of Encoded Attribute Values},
    author = {J. Aravind and Suman Roy and Anju Mahendru Singh},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0 https://aravind-j.github.io/LEAVcore/},
    year = {2026},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use
it, please support the project by citing the package.