A toolkit of R functions for air quality model benchmarking, inspired by the DELTA tool (JRC-IES) and the work of the FAIRMODE WP1.

delta + R -> dartle

require("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jobonaf/dartle")

http://rpubs.com/gbonafe/dartle-intro

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