Data sets on various litter types like beach litter, riverain
    litter, floating litter, and seafloor litter are rapidly growing. This 
    package offers a simple user interface to analyse these litter data in
    a consistent and reproducible way. It also provides functions to 
    facilitate several kinds of litter analysis, e.g., trend analysis, 
    power analysis, and baseline analysis. Under the hood, these functions 
    are also used by the user interface. See Schulz et al. (2019)
    <doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.02.030> for details. MS-Windows users are
    advised to run 'litteR' in 'RStudio'. See our vignette: Installation manual 
    for 'RStudio' and 'litteR'.

There is a long tradition of studying the flux of carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere by following a particular cohort of litter (wood, leaves, roots, or other organic material) through time.  The resulting data are mass remaining and time. A variety of functional forms may be used to fit the resulting data. Some work better empirically. Some are better connected to a process-based understanding.  Some have a small number of free parameters; others have more. This package matches decomposition data to a family of these curves using likelihood--based fitting. This package is based on published research by Cornwell & Weedon (2013) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12138>.

A scripting and command-line front-end
 is provided by 'r' (aka 'littler') as a lightweight binary wrapper around
 the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
 While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for
 both 'shebang'-style scripting (i.e. using a  hash-mark-exclamation-path
 expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in
 standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without
 the environment.

Linear Liu regression coefficient's estimation and testing with different Liu related measures such as MSE, R-squared etc.
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