Authors

Samantha Schiano, Sophie Breitbart, and Steve Saul

Contributors

Bai Li, Kathryn Doering

Description

{asar} is an R package that partially automates a stock assessment report and facilitates actions accompanying the workflow including making documents accessible (a federal requirement). This package was developed out of a need for a more streamlined and efficient stock assessment process where the lowest hanging fruit was reporting. It standardizes report structure while simultaneously allowing broader customizations needed for a particular stock or region's report. The need to make accessible documents in an automated fashion was a top priority, so heavy development and a collaboration with Quarto, a major industry partner, brought {asar} accessibility features to an open-source publishing platform used by thousands worldwide.

{asar} is frequently used in conjunction with {stockplotr}, an R package used to create semi-automated figures and tables for stock assessment reports.

Installation Instructions

https://github.com/nmfs-ost/asar/blob/main/README.md#installation

Associated Tools

• stockplotr

Citation

Schiano S, Breitbart S, Saul S (2026). asar: Build NOAA Stock Assessment Report. R package version 2.2.0, https://github.com/nmfs-ost/asar.

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Keywords

• Fisheries
• R Package
• Standardized Reporting
• Stock Assessment Tool
• Utility Tools

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