What can we learn from 100,000 freshwater forecasts? A synthesis from the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge: scripts

This archive includes code to recreate the figures in the paper entitled:
 "What can we learn from 100,000 freshwater forecasts? A synthesis from the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge". The scripts should be run as follows:

1. install_packages.R - script that includes the required packages and installation instructions
2. manuscript_plots.Rmd - code to generate the plots in the main manuscript
3. supplementary_plots.Rmd - code to generate the plots in the supplementary information
4. R folder contains helper functions and scripts

Running this code

To reproduce the figures from the manuscript you can access and run the code yourself by downloading the scripts.zip folder above. 

-   Unzip this to a location on your PC and open the manuscript_plots.Rmd and then the supplementary_plots.Rmd file in RStudio.
-     You can either run each chunk seperately or knit the whole document.
-    The first section of the manuscript_plots.Rmd will download and extract the archived scores and targets from the Zenodo data publication (Olsson et al., 2024). 
-    Both scripts will save plots to a new Plots directory.

Note: If you do not have the required packages run the install_packages.R script first.

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Olsson, F., Carey, C. C., Carl, B., Gregory, H., Ladwig, R., Lapeyrolerie, M., Lewis, A. S. L., Lofton, M., Montetealegre-Mora, F., Rabaey, J. S., Robbins, C. J., Yang, X., & Thomas, R. Q. (2024). 
What can we learn from 100,000 freshwater forecasts? A synthesis from the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge: scores and targets [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11087208