README for vital rate regression directories

This directory contains sub-directories for fitting vital rate regression models for each vital rate (growth/, survival/, and recruitment/), a subdirectory containing scripts for running cross-validation and ridge regression for each vital rate (regularization/), and a subdirectory containing scripts for leave-one-year-out cross-validation for each vital rate regression (validation/). There is also a cache/ directory containing old versions of scripts.

There are two R scripts: