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RPS (Resistant Procrustes Software)
provides a flexible and userfriendly platform to
perform a integrated landmarkbased resistant shape analysis of 2D and 3D datasets.
This open source software has a welldesigned graphical user interface that offers a friendly and
customizable working environment. Its overall performance is reasonably fast and efficient
RPS
despite the time complexity of the implemented resistant algorithms. modular design will
allow other resistanttype morphometric and statistical functionalities to be incorporated in the
near future.
Project Item List area
RPS
organizes datasets and analyses into projects, which are intended to be selfcontained; this
area thus offers a general overview of the project items.
Test1
The tree structure reserves the first level for the project name (e.g. ). The second level
DSTest1
corresponds to the name of the dataset to be analyzed (e.g. ). The third level includes:
Specimens
the list of landmark configurations under the tag ; the list of analyses performed on
Consensus configuration if the dataset resulted from
that dataset, and may eventually include a
RPS
a Procrustes analysis.
RPS
Performed analyses can be distinguished by the automatic prefixes in their names:
● GrP_x
(Generalized resistant Procrustes superposition)
● GlsP_x
(Generalized least squares Procrustes superposition)
● rD_x
(resistant Distance)
● lsD_x
(least squares Distance)
● 2D_ x
(two dimensional ordination)
● 3D_x
(three dimensional ordination)
● rUMDS_x
(resistant Universal MultiDimensional Scaling)
● lsUMDS_x
(least squares Universal MultiDimensional Scaling)
The possibility of simultaneously analyzing different datasets in the same project is also
allowed.
Graphics & Reports area
Graphics and
This area covers most of the user's window. It consists of two independent tabs:
Reports
.
Graphics tab is organized into subtabs, each corresponding to a graphical display of
The
either:
1. an added dataset in 2D or 3D;
2. the result of a particular superposition in 2D or 3D;
3. a requested ordination in 2D or 3D.
Each subtab has an interactive frame where the default features of the graph can be edited and
customized by the user. When a specific subtab is active, a column on its right named
Element & Show lists those specimens included in the graph and their corresponding
landmarks. The user can select or deselect some (specimens and/or landmarks) to be excluded
from the visualization. At the bottom of this column, a bar indicates the estimated analysis
progress percentage.
Reports tab offers a detailed record of every performed analysis and computation, in text
The
format: Procrustes superpositions results, distance matrices, ordinations coordinates.
File
File includes all those commands that perform actions on the project (
The popup menu New
,
Open and
Save Project New Dataset
) or enable to incorporate a new dataset ( ) to an existing
Export to Image
project, or to export graphics and results ( Export to Dataset
/ ). Worth
mentioning that three different file formats, used in most morphometric softwares, can be
TPS
imported: NTS
, Morphologika,
and .tps
with extensions .nts
, .txt
and respectively.
When a new file has been properly loaded, the corresponding dataset is automatically displayed
Graphics
in the area.
Analysis
Analysis displays the implemented
The popup menu shape analysis tools
. Two different
versions of the Procrustes superposition can be performed through the menu command
Procrustes Analysis GrP (
: generalized resistant Procrustes superposition) GlsP
and
generalized least squares Procrustes superposition
( ).
Prior to pick one of these options, a dataset must have been selected using the cursor. Once
the superposition is performed, the corresponding result is displayed as a sublevel of the
processed dataset in the tree structure on the left.
Matrices of distances between all pairs of landmarks configurations in a dataset can also be
Distances
computed by choosing the line command . As mentioned, rD
resistant ( ) (
Torcida et
al. 2014 lsD
) and least squares ( ) distances
are available. This command also requires a dataset
to have been selected; the corresponding result is afterwards displayed as a sublevel of the
processed dataset in the tree structure on the left.
Finally, a Ordinations by selecting
distance matrix may serve as input to compute 2D or 3D
this command; the corresponding result is afterwards displayed as a sublevel of the selected
distance matrix in the tree structure on the left.
All the results from the performed analyses and computations —
Procrustes superpositions,
distances matrices ordinations
and Reports
— are always automatically included in the area.