McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER (MCM LTER) Website Figures

This repository contains R scripts and source code used to reproduce figures displayed on the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) website. The scripts automatically query the latest ecological and meteorological datasets from the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) repository, process the data, and generate high-resolution figures.

Repository Structure

• src/: Contains the R scripts used for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.
• figures/: Contains the generated output figures in PNG format.

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Prerequisites and Installation

To run these scripts, you need to have R installed. The scripts rely on the following R packages:

• tidyverse (for data manipulation, including readr and dplyr)
• ggplot2 (for plotting)
• scales (for formatting axis labels)

You can install these dependencies from CRAN by running the following command in your R console:

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "ggplot2", "scales"))

Running the Code

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Run the R scripts
3. The generated figures will be saved to the figures directory