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ssddata is an R package of Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) benchmark datasets that can serve as a reference standard for testing and evaluation of SSD methodologies.

The package includes a range of data sets sourced from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (ccme), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (aims), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (csiro), and the Australian and New Zealand water water quality guideline website (angz), as well as anonymous datasets supplied by various parties (anon). The source of each dataset are indicated using a pre-fix in the data name (e.g. ccme, aims, etc), with the actual chemical name following (e.g. ccme_boron).

The package also includes wqbench_data, a large data set from the US EPA ECOTOX database, cleaned and standardized by the wqbench package.

Please see the relevant reference page more info information on each dataset.

You can browse the source code on github.

Top report an error, request features or data additions please post on the github issues page.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("open-AIMS/ssddata")