Package: HLCtools
Title: Calculate Herd Lying Concordance Metrics
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: 
    person(
        given = "Guilherme",
        family = "Amorim Franchi",
        email = "gaf@anivet.au.dk",
        role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
        comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7653-6512")
    )
Description: Calculates Herd Lying Concordance (HLC) metrics from individual animal lying-behaviour data. HLC is a continuous framework for quantifying group-level behavioural cohesion from between-animal dispersion within observation intervals. The package implements standard deviation, mean absolute deviation, interquartile range, and entropy formulations, lying-weighted extensions, threshold-based synchrony comparisons, temporal summaries, and descriptive method-ranking tools. The HLC formulations are introduced in this package; related approaches to cattle behavioural synchrony include Raussi et al. (2011) <doi:10.1017/S1751731110001928>, Kok et al. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2023.105906>, and the activity metric framework of van Dixhoorn et al. (2024) <doi:10.24072/pcjournal.489>.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/guilhermefranchi/HLCtools
BugReports: https://github.com/guilhermefranchi/HLCtools/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, rlang
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
LazyData: true
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-15 18:46:38 UTC; au588902
Author: Guilherme Amorim Franchi [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7653-6512>)
Maintainer: Guilherme Amorim Franchi <gaf@anivet.au.dk>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-23 13:10:15 UTC
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