workloopR
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The facts
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What it does
- Batch processing
- Batch functions can import, select cycles, correct gear ratios, and compute work and power for work loop files in a directory.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data correction
- Users can correct the motor arm gear ratio and the direction of muscle length change before analysis.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data import
- The package imports .ddf files, including files generated by Aurora Scientific’s Dynamic Muscle Control and Analysis Software.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Experiment types
- It supports work loop, simple twitch, and tetanus experiments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Import
- The package easily imports .ddf files, including files generated by Aurora Scientific’s Dynamic Muscle Control and Analysis Software.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation gives installation instructions for CRAN and GitHub.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Install options
- The package can be installed from CRAN or from GitHub using devtools::install_github("ropensci/workloopR").checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The package is for researchers studying muscle physiology who use work loop, twitch, or tetanus experiments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Isometric analysis
- isometric_timing summarizes the timing and magnitude of force production during tetanus or twitch trials.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- workloopR is licensed under GPL (>= 3).checked 12 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- Vikram B. Baliga is listed as author and maintainer, and Shreeram Senthivasan is listed as an author.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other file formats
- Other data formats must be constructed by the user into muscle_stim objects.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other formats
- Other file formats must be constructed by the user into muscle_stim objects.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Plotting
- The package does not provide plotting functions; its output objects are designed to work with base-R plotting or tidyverse functions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- workloopR provides R functions to import, transform, and analyze muscle physiology experiments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scripting support
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The maintainers welcome feedback and feature requests, especially requests for importing non-ddf file types.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported experiments
- The package supports work loop, simple twitch, and tetanus experiments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Transformations
- Users can correct motor arm gear ratio or muscle length-change direction and label work loop cycles using different cycle definitions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Work loop analysis
- analyze_workloop computes per-cycle instantaneous velocity, net work, instantaneous power, and net power.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
