openNCAI: Calculates a Natural Capital Assets Index

Calculates a regional natural capital assets index (NCAI) following the methodology designed by NatureScot for Scotland as described in Albon, Balana, Brooker & Eastwood (2014) <https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2025-06/naturescot-commissioned-report-751.pdf> and McKenna et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/J.ECOLIND.2019.105645>. Processes habitat extent and condition data alongside metadata and weighting systems to produce a yearly single figure indexed relative to a base-year value of 100.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	dplyr, janitor, magrittr, openxlsx, readxl, rlang, slider, stats, stringr, tidyr
Suggests:	ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, rprojroot, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble
Published:	2026-05-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.openNCAI (may not be active yet)
Author:	Kate O'Hara [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Kate O'Hara <k.a.ohara at stir.ac.uk>
BugReports:	https://github.com/oharakate/openNCAI/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/oharakate/openNCAI
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	openNCAI results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	openNCAI.html , openNCAI.pdf
Vignettes:	openNCAI in Brief (source, R code) Replicating Scotland's NCAI (source, R code) Using openNCAI's Data Entry Templates (source, R code)

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Package source:	openNCAI_0.1.0.tar.gz
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