R Package to Analyse Eye Tracking data

Question

I was wondering if anyone out there has found a nice package for R to analyse eye-tracking data?

I came across eyetrackR but as far as I can tell there is no English support documentation available:

http://read.psych.uni-potsdam.de/pmr2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43:eyetrackr&catid=13:r-playground&Itemid=15

I will move onto another freeware that handles eye-tracking data if I need to but was really hoping there would be something accessible in R.

Ideas?

Cheers.

Answer 1

It would help if you could explain which kind of analyses you are intending to do. There are many different approaches depending on the research question and the research field. Many approaches involve the detection of fixations and saccades as a first step. An R package that can be used for fixation detection is called saccades and is available on CRAN. See also the Github page of the package for examples and screenshots.

Answer 2

A new eye-tracking analysis package for R (eyetrackingR) was recently released. It provides a variety of methods that handle data preparation/cleaning, visualization, and analysis.

Answer 3

Here's a list of several dozen instances of researcher contributed code (FOSS) for post-acquisition summarization and analysis of eye-movement data. You may be able to find something to suit your needs there.

List is provided in case anyone stumbling across this thread may find it useful.

https://github.com/davebraze/FDBeye/wiki/Researcher-Contributed-Eye-Tracking-Tools