rpcss:
Constitution of Core Collections by Principal Component Scoring Strategy

Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.
Generate a Core Collection with Principal Component Scoring Strategy (PCSS) using qualitative and/or quantitative trait data according to Hamon and Noirot (1990) <https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:36506>, Noirot et al. (1996) <doi:10.2307/2527837> and Noirot et al. (2003) <https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010031886>.

The package can be installed from CRAN as follows:
The development version can be installed from github as follows:
# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/rpcss")To know whats new in this version type:
news(package='rpcss')rpcssTo cite the methods in the package use:
citation("rpcss")To cite the R package 'rpcss' in publications use:
Aravind, J. (2026). rpcss: Constitution of Core Collections by Principal Component Scoring Strategy. R
package version 0.1.1,
https://aravind-j.github.io/rpcss/https://cran.r-project.org/package=rpcsshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14889174.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {rpcss: Constitution of Core Collections by Principal Component Scoring Strategy},
author = {J. Aravind},
note = {R package version 0.1.1 https://aravind-j.github.io/rpcss/ https://cran.r-project.org/package=rpcss https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14889174},
year = {2026},
}
This free and open-source software implements academic research by the authors and co-workers. If you use
it, please support the project by citing the package.