person("Meghan L.", "Avolio", email="meghan.avolio@jhu.edu", role=c("aut")),
person("Ian T.", "Carroll", email="icarroll@sesync.org", role=c("aut")),
Description: Univariate and multivariate temporal and spatial diversity indices,
rank abundance curves, and community stability metrics. The functions
implement metrics that are either explicitly temporal and include the
option to  calculate them over multiple replicates, or spatial and include
the option to calculate them over multiple time points. Functions fall into
five categories: static diversity indices, temporal diversity indices,
spatial diversity indices, rank abundance curves, and community stability
metrics. The diversity indices are temporal and spatial analogs to
traditional diversity indices. Specifically, the package includes functions
to calculate community richness, evenness and diversity at a given point in
space and time. In addition, it contains functions to calculate species
turnover, mean rank shifts, and lags in community similarity between two
Imports: assertthat, stats, permute, vegan

rank abundance curves, and community stability measures. The functions
implement measures that are either explicitly temporal and include the
option to calculate them over multiple replicates, or spatial and include
measures. The diversity indices are temporal and spatial analogs to

person("Ian T.", "Carroll", email="carroll.ian@gmail.com", role=c("aut")),

Suggests: testthat, knitr, ggplot2, pillar, reshape2, devtools, dplyr,

Title: Meta Analysis of Factor Analysis Based on CO-Occurrence Matrices
Description: Provide a series of functions to conduct a meta analysis of
factor analysis based on co-occurrence matrices. The tool can be used to
solve the factor structure (i.e. inner structure of a construct, or scale)
debate in several disciplines, such as psychology, psychiatry, management,

Title: Robust Cronbach's alpha with missing and non-normal data
Description: Cronbach's alpha is one of the most widely used
reliability or internal consistency measures in social,
behavioral and education sciences. Alpha is reported in nearly
every study that involves measuring a construct through
multiple test items. The package coefficientalpha calculates
Cronbach's coefficient alpha with missing data and non-normal
data. Robust standard error and confidence interval are also