Code and Auxiliary Data for: Associations between lifetime fitness and social bonds in female red deer

**Description:**This repository contains the analysis code and auxiliary network data files required to reproduce the statistical analyses and figures for the publication "Associations between lifetime fitness and social bonds in female red deer" by Sebastian Sosa (*Cervus elaphus*). This submission complements the primary dataset archived at Dryad. While the Dryad repository contains the raw CSV data files, this Zenodo repository contains the software scripts and R objects. **Files included:*** **`red_deer_analysis.qmd`**: The Quarto source file containing all R code for data loading, analysis, and figure/table generation.* **`MRQAP_data.RData`**: R data object containing social networks corrected by SRI over the years of observations, including adjacency matrices for social associations and attributes. **Requirements:*** R (version 4.2.0 or later)* Quarto **Related Data:**The primary data files (CSV) used by these scripts are available at Dryad: [Insert your Dryad DOI link here once you have it].