Performs a stability analysis based on the geometric mean (GAI), according to the following model (Mohammadi and Amri, 2008): \[GAI = \sqrt[E]{{\mathop {\bar Y}\nolimits_1 + \mathop {\bar Y}\nolimits_2 + ... + \mathop {\bar Y}\nolimits_i }}\] where \(\bar Y_1\), \(\bar Y_2\), and \(\bar Y_i\) are the mean yields of the first, second and i-th genotypes across environments, and E is the number of environments
Arguments
- .data
- The dataset containing the columns related to Environments, Genotypes, replication/block and response variable(s). 
- env
- The name of the column that contains the levels of the environments. 
- gen
- The name of the column that contains the levels of the genotypes. 
- resp
- The response variable(s). To analyze multiple variables in a single procedure use, for example, - resp = c(var1, var2, var3).
- verbose
- Logical argument. If - verbose = FALSEthe code will run silently.
Value
An object of class gai, which is a list containing the results
for each variable used in the argument resp. For each variable, a
tibble with the following columns is returned.
- GEN the genotype's code. 
- GAI Geometric adaptability index 
- GAI_R The rank for the GAI value. 
References
Mohammadi, R., & Amri, A. (2008). Comparison of parametric and non-parametric methods for selecting stable and adapted durum wheat genotypes in variable environments. Euphytica, 159(3), 419-432. doi:10.1007/s10681-007-9600-6 .
Author
Tiago Olivoto tiagoolivoto@gmail.com
Examples
# \donttest{
library(metan)
out <- gai(data_ge2,
           env = ENV,
           gen = GEN,
           resp = c(EH, PH, EL, CD, ED, NKE))
#> Evaluating trait EH |=======                                     | 17% 00:00:00 
Evaluating trait PH |===============                             | 33% 00:00:00 
Evaluating trait EL |======================                      | 50% 00:00:00 
Evaluating trait CD |=============================               | 67% 00:00:00 
Evaluating trait ED |=====================================       | 83% 00:00:01 
Evaluating trait NKE |===========================================| 100% 00:00:01 
# }
