Package: workloopR
Type: Package
Title: Analysis of Work Loops and Other Data from Muscle Physiology
        Experiments
Version: 1.1.4
Authors@R: 
    c(person(given = "Vikram B.",
             family = "Baliga", 
             role = c("aut", "cre"),
             email = "vbaliga87@gmail.com",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9367-8974")),
      person(given = "Shreeram", 
             family = "Senthivasan",
             role = "aut",
             email = "shreeramsenthi@gmail.com",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7118-9547")),
      person(given = "Julia",
             family = "Romanowska",
             role = "rev",
             email = "Julia.Romanowska@uib.no",
             comment = "Julia reviewed the package for rOpenSci
             , see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/326/>"),
      person(given = "Eric",
             family = "Brown", 
             role = "rev",
             email = "eb@ericebrown.com",
             comment = "Eric reviewed the package for rOpenSci
             , see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/326/>"))
Description: Functions for the import, transformation, and analysis of
        data from muscle physiology experiments. The work loop
        technique is used to evaluate the mechanical work and power
        output of muscle. Josephson (1985) <doi:10.1242/jeb.114.1.493>
        modernized the technique for application in comparative
        biomechanics. Although our initial motivation was to provide
        functions to analyze work loop experiment data, as we developed
        the package we incorporated the ability to analyze data from
        experiments that are often complementary to work loops. There
        are currently three supported experiment types: work loops,
        simple twitches, and tetanus trials. Data can be imported
        directly from .ddf files or via an object constructor function.
        Through either method, data can then be cleaned or transformed
        via methods typically used in studies of muscle physiology.
        Data can then be analyzed to determine the timing and magnitude
        of force development and relaxation (for isometric trials) or
        the magnitude of work, net power, and instantaneous power among
        other things (for work loops). Although we do not provide
        plotting functions, all resultant objects are designed to be
        friendly to visualization via either base-R plotting or
        'tidyverse' functions. This package has been peer-reviewed by
        rOpenSci (v. 1.1.0).
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/workloopR/,
        https://github.com/ropensci/workloopR/
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/workloopR/issues/
Imports: pracma (>= 2.0.7), signal (>= 0.7-6)
Suggests: testthat (>= 2.1.1), knitr, rmarkdown, dplyr, ggplot2,
        magrittr, purrr, tidyr
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1.9000
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2024-07-17 15:20:20 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ropensci/workloopR
RemoteRef: master
RemoteSha: 2ed0f7f1081e4decdd108218a2f9c5f566965353
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-01 08:16:03 UTC; root
Author: Vikram B. Baliga [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9367-8974>),
  Shreeram Senthivasan [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7118-9547>),
  Julia Romanowska [rev] (Julia reviewed the package for rOpenSci , see
    <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/326/>),
  Eric Brown [rev] (Eric reviewed the package for rOpenSci , see
    <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/326/>)
Maintainer: Vikram B. Baliga <vbaliga87@gmail.com>