Morpho

Morpho provides a rich toolset for Geometric Morphometrics and mesh processing in R. This includes (among other stuff) mesh deformations based on reference points, permutation tests, detection of outliers, processing of sliding semi-landmarks, im- and export of a variety of triangular surface mesh files.

Installation of the R-package Morpho from CRAN:

Prerequisites for Debian/Ubuntu (needed to build dependency package sf)

sudo apt install libudunits2-dev libgeos-dev

Prerequisites for Fedora (needed to build dependency package sf)

dnf install udunits2-devel geos-devel gdal-devel proj-devel

Within R:

install.packages("Morpho")

Installation of the R-package Morpho (development snapshot) using devtools:

Install prerequisites

1. Install devtools from within R (Ubuntu/Debian users will have to install libcurl4-gnutls-dev beforehand):

    install.packages("devtools")
   

   Make sure to have the latest versions of Rcpp and RcppArmadillo installed!!

2. Install build environment

   • Windows: Install latest version of Rtools During installation of Rtools make sure to install the toolchain, and to select "Edit the system path" (and confirming the installers suggestions).
   • OSX: Install XCODE

3. Install prerequisites for Debian/Ubuntu (needed to build dependency package sf)

sudo apt install libudunits2-dev libgeos-dev

Install Morpho

Run the following command in R:

require(devtools)
install_github("zarquon42b/Morpho")