openNCAI: Calculates a Natural Capital Assets Index

Calculates a regional natural capital assets index (NCAI) following the methodology designed by NatureScot for Scotland as described in Albon, Balana, Brooker & Eastwood (2014) <https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2025-06/naturescot-commissioned-report-751.pdf> and McKenna et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/J.ECOLIND.2019.105645>. Processes habitat extent and condition data alongside metadata and weighting systems to produce a yearly single figure indexed relative to a base-year value of 100.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, janitor, magrittr, openxlsx, readxl, rlang, slider, stats, stringr, tidyr
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, rprojroot, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble
Published: 2026-05-13
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.openNCAI (may not be active yet)
Author: Kate O'Hara [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Kate O'Hara <k.a.ohara at stir.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/oharakate/openNCAI/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/oharakate/openNCAI
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: openNCAI results

Documentation:

Reference manual: openNCAI.html , openNCAI.pdf
Vignettes: openNCAI in Brief (source, R code)
Replicating Scotland's NCAI (source, R code)
Using openNCAI's Data Entry Templates (source, R code)

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Package source: openNCAI_0.1.0.tar.gz
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