rTARDIS (Terrains And Routes Directed In Spacetime) is
an R package for spatiotemporal geographic connectivity analysis. It
provides functions for constructing and analysing graph representations
of complex geographic spaces at local to global scales, particularly
where accessible spaces are discontinuously distributed but still
display connectivity (e.g., island systems where isolation is strong but
not necessarily absolute), and where that distribution also changes
through time (e.g., habitat patch fragmentation or plate tectonic
drift).
rTARDIS was primarily designed to allow exploration of
routes and distances across changing geographic architectures in deep
time - Google Maps for palaeobiologists! Its general functionality,
however, is also suitable for modern applications such as landscape
genetics or dispersal ecology. As such, suggestions for enhancements or
improvements are welcomed.
A stable release of rTARDIS on CRAN is anticipated in
the near future. For the time being, the development version of
TARDIS can be installed via GitHub using:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jf15558/rTARDIS")If you use the rTARDIS R package in your work, please
cite the original article describing the package:
Flannery-Sutherland, J., Elsler, A., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Benton, M. (2025). Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, 1138–1152. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02739-y.
Please also cite the package version you are using:
# Get citation
citation("rTARDIS")
# Get citation in BibTex format
toBibtex(citation("rTARDIS"))