burnr

I have been collaborating to develop the burnr fire history library for more than 4 years. It’s as much enjoyment as it is self-serving – I needed to do a lot of fire history analyses for my dissertation and I wanted to do that in R. As good as other fire history programs are, I am an unashamed addict of using R. But more than that, I see the incredible potential of R for tree ring and all sciences, and I wanted to help others similarly interested in applying the program and its myriad of features to their own work. I truly hope people will use burnr, and I am more than happy to help in that effort.

The burnr website is under development, but contains a lot of help for its functionality: https://ltrr-arizona-edu.github.io/burnr/

So far, I have used burnr in several research projects, including my work on shrubfields and the Navajo fire history . Several more papers are in the works.

We are also pushing the bounds of burnr by conducting large-scale syntheses for the American Southwest and for the North American Continent .

I have put together a teaching demo of burnr that includes all of the data and code required to run through a bunch of basics, and some advanced features, using burnr. Please check it out at https://github.com/chguiterman/burnr_demo .