This package contains some R-scripts that allow the calculation of various morphometric methods published by Baur & Leuenberger (2011). Later these methods were addressed under the name "Multivariate Ratio Analysis" (MRA, see Baur et al. 2014). The scripts were originally provided by the authors in an electronic supplementary file together with the original paper, and later in slightly modified form also by Baur et al. (2014). However, it is our wish to publish them in a manner that they may be cited separately and also be updated when necessary. The package contains the main scripts in two files: Shape_PCA_vX.XX.RLDA_Ratio_Extractor_vY.YY.R Important note: In the script of the LDA Ratio Extractor the case for more than 2 groups is now also included. This case was described by Baur & Leuenberger (2011, p. 817), but was left out from the R-script originally published in Systematic Biology. We think that the implementation is a welcome addition to the entire set of methods provided by MRA. For both scripts, separate tutorials are available:Tutorial_1_ Shape_PCA.RTutorial_2_LDA_Ratio_Extractor.R It is recommended to work through these brief tutorials, starting with the first one. A dataset (from Baur et al. 2014) is supplied as well:Anisopteromalus_data.csv In order to avoid any troubles, make sure that all files are put into one and the same folder. RStudio is recommended for performing the R-scripts (especially for beginners). PDFs of the two papers cited below are also provided in the package. New tutorials: Additional tutorial are available from Baur, H. (2024, May 31). R-tutorials, datasets, and presentations from the workshop Morphometrics in Taxonomy (University of Bern). Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11400348. A further tutorial contrasts standard ordination methods with MRA in an exemplary way, see Baur (2025) (full citation below). Citation: You may use the citation of the package as indicated by Zenodo on this webpage. Do also cite the original paper by Baur & Leuenberger (2011, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr061), as only this article contains the mathematical background and scientific context concerning the methods. Contact: Hannes Baur, Natural History Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzerland, Email: hannes.baur@nmbe.chWebsite: https://www.nmbe.ch/en/hannes.baur. References: Cited references and some useful applications of the methods are listed below under References.

What is new in version 1.05 1. Minor change for controlling also "cex" in the plots generated by the ldaRE() function: line 146 ..., cexlegend=0.9), replaced by..., cexlegend=1, cex=1) line 239..., cexlegend=cexlegend), replaced by..., cexlegend=cexlegend, cex=cex) 2. Preventing possible issue related to the new way of handeling stringsAsFactors in R 4.0.0 and later (see https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2020/02/16/stringsasfactors/) line 148..., g <- factor(g), replaced by..., g <- as.factor(g)