SeedCalc, a new automated R software tool for germination and seedling length data processing

The need to optimize the seed quality assessment using new, more accessible and modern computational resources has led to the emergence of new tools. In this paper, it is introduced the SeedCalc, a new R package developed to process germination and seedling length data. The functions included in SeedCalc allow an efficient and fast data processing, offering greater reliability to the generated variables and facilitating the own statistical analysis, since the data is already generated with the appropriate structure to be statistically analyzed in the R software. SeedCalc is available free of charge at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SeedCalc.

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