This package provides functions to align curves and to compute mean curves based on the elastic distance defined in the square-root-velocity framework. For more details on this framework see Srivastava and Klassen (2016, <doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-4020-2>). For more theoretical details on our methods and algorithms see Steyer et al. (2023, <doi:10.1111/biom.13706>) and Steyer et al. (2023, <arXiv:2305.02075>).