Code and data associated with 'The web architecture, dynamics, and silk investment in the social spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum'

Location of the main files and folders relevant to the paper:

All R  based analyses were done with a combination of a Windows 8 laptop and a Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon.
The nparLD analyses require R version 2.15.3, and the other analyses were done with R version
3.4.4. Multiple versions of R can be installed and run on the same system using the Rbuild and Renv packages. Please see the parts of the Rmd files describing the nparLD analyses to see how this was done.

## Silk investment and topology related analyses are in the folder 'web-construction FINAL round- raw data/analysis-FINALround/analysis-results/feb_2016_Rmdfiles/

R Markdown notebook files and associated HTML outputs used to replicate figures and results in paper:

### Pore-size and coordination number analysis

- beleyur_et_al_topology_analyses.Rmd

### Silk investment and per-capita analyses

- beleyur_et_al_silk_analyses.Rmd

### Weight-loss analysis

- weight_loss_analysis.Rmd

### nparLD analysis scripts

- poresize_CN_nparLD.R
- silk_nparLD.R

## Coordination number and pore size calculations

Code and data used to quantify the coordination number and pore size in 'AllResults.zip' - a combination of raw images, .mat data files and .m files that can be analysed using the MATLAB platform.

All data and code in 'AllResults.zip'

## Raw data location:

'web-construction FINAL round- raw data/pics-till 11th March/pics by date and batch/'

All raw JPG images are placed according to their batch (A-J), and group size. Please note that not all webs can be finally analysed as having the labelled group size because despite all efforts spiders somehow managed to move between colonies in some cases! Please refer to the actual colonies used in the manuscript, these webs have definitely been built by the specified number of spiders.

## Hand-cropped images of only web with retreat

'web-construction FINAL round- raw data/pics-till 11th March/cropped_photos_in_one_place/'

These are TIF files made after manual cropping of the web pictures. Please see the note above explaining how to choose the webs with valid group sizes.