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Current Version - 1.2-0.

An R package to allow users to interface with the Neotoma Paleoecological Database (http://www.neotomadb.org) in an R session. Hosted and assisted by ROpenSci at https://github.com/ropensci/neotoma

To use, simply extract to the R library folder and use as you would any other package.

NOTE: Some Mac users have reported installation problems. The most up to date version can always be installed using:

> install.packages("devtools")

> require(devtools)

> install_github("neotoma", "ropensci")

> require(neotoma)

More details in the help file and at the linked blog post (below). This package is associated with the following publication:

Goring, S., Dawson, A., Simpson, G. L., Ram, K., Graham, R. W., Grimm, E. C., & Williams, J. W.. (2015). neotoma: A Programmatic Interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database, 1(1), Art. 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.ab