What is climdex.pcic?

• climdex.pcic is a library for computing the 27 core indices of extreme climate. It was written for the R statistical programming language by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium.

Getting Help

New to programming or to R?

• Read the the Software Carpentry Programming in R lessons
• Read one of the man R Manuals.
• Attend an R Users Group meeting.

Looking for code?

• Get the latest climdex.pcic release from CRAN.
• Install it from the R interpreter

> install.packages('climdex.pcic')

• Explore the development repository.

Need help using the package?

• Read the manual

    > library(climdex.pcic)
    Loading required package: PCICt
    > ?climdex.pcic

• Create a new issue on the package issue tracker and label it "help wanted"[1].

Want to contribute?

• To report a bug in pcic.climdex use the package issue tracker (after you've read the bug reporting guide).
• To help with development read through the contributor's guide.

Still need help?

• Contact climate@uvic.ca and let us know what we can do.

[1] Please know that the pool of people who can provide support for the package is extremely small and time is limited. We don't necessarily have the capacity for long, open-ended user support. If you keep your questions short, specific and direct, there's a greater probability that someone will take on the ticket.