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Correlation MDS-space plots added to raster.cor.plot
Here's a handy little visualization when you're interested in the correlations between your rasters. Basically it takes the matrix of absolute values of correlation coefficients for a set of rasters,...
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Playing around with a new version of response plots
On the develop branch of the R version of ENMTools, I've been playing around with a new way of plotting marginal response functions. In the figure above, the solid blue line represents the relative...
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Interactive species and model plots
Russell Dinnage has just added a really cool feature: interactive plotting of enmtools.species and enmtools.model objects. Here's a species:And here's a model:The maps are zoom-able and pan-able, and...
View ArticleRecent changes: trim dupes by raster, species from csv file, and improvements...
I've been making a bunch of small changes recently. Some of it you won't see, but bits of it are there to make your life easier. One nice little trick is that now you can go:species.list =...
View ArticleBITC presentation on the past, present, and future of ENMTools
In case you missed it, I gave a talk for the Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum the other day where I talked about the history of ENMTools, what's happening now, and where it's going in the...
View ArticleCourse Reminder: Quantitative geographic ecology using R. Glasgow, April 30...
Hey everybody! There are still open slots in my upcoming course with Matt Fitzpatrick entitled "Quantitative geographic ecology using R: modelling genomes, niches, and communities". Sign up now, it's...
View ArticleIssues with installing ENMTools under newest versions of R
During the course I co-taught with Matt Fitzpatrick in Glasgow a few weeks ago, it came out that a number of people were having trouble installing ENMTools. A lot of this seems to stem from the newest...
View ArticleMore installation issues: "descendants" not exported from phyloclim, ecospat...
Well the fun just keeps rolling in with the newest R update and ensuing package updates. Two new issues have just been brought to my attention that prevent new installations of ENMTools: first, the...
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Minor fixes, new features
Hey all! I've been bashing away at ENMTools for the past couple of days, just doing a bunch of bug fixes and adding some new features. If you want to see everything you can go here, but I'll outline...
View ArticlePredict functions for all model types
I've finally gotten around to adding predict() functions for all of the ENMTools model types. You can now project your model onto a new time period or geographic extent, and it gives you back two...
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Why add correlations for suitability scores?
Hey y'all! After a conversation with some colleagues, I realized that I sort of added Spearman rank correlation as a measure of overlap to ENMTools without really explaining why. Here is a quick and...
View ArticleFun fact: you can run a whole bunch of models at once using ENMTools quite...
The ENMTools R package contains a function called "species.from.file". This takes a .csv file and creates a list of species objects, one for each value in the "species" column in your .csv file. So you...
View ArticleLow memory usage options for identity.test and background.test
This is something I've been meaning to do for a while, but just finally got around to because it was screwing someone's analysis up. Originally, the ENMTools R package was designed to store all...
View ArticleRWTY 1.0.2 now on CRAN
The newest version of RWTY, version 1.0.2 is now on CRAN. This is a relatively minor release except for one significant bug fix: there was an issue causing one of the plotting functions to fail when...
View ArticleLow memory options for rangebreak tests are now available on develop branch
There are now options available for writing replicate models to disk for the rangebreak tests, instead of storing them in the output object. This works in exactly the same way as it does for the...
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Now on biorXiv: Evaluating species distribution models with discrimination...
I've just recently posted a new paper to biorXiv entitled "Evaluating species distribution models with discrimination accuracy is uninformative for many applications", which I did in collaboration with...
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ENMTools R package now has a DOI
I finally got some time to put together the first real beta release of ENMTools, and got a doi number for it. If you're using the R version of ENMTools, please cite it as follows for now:Warren, D.L.,...
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Calibration metrics added to ENMTools R package
Given our recent paper on how badly discrimination accuracy performs at selecting models that estimate ecological phenomena, the obvious next question is whether there are existing alternatives that do...
View ArticleCode snippet from Tyler Smith for fast plotting of ENMTools models
Over on the ENMTools GitHub page, Tyler Smith asked a question about plotting ENMTools models. He pointed out that large models are very slow to plot, largely because of our use of ggplot2. We like...
View ArticleIntroductory tutorials for the R version of ENMTools
Hey everybody! I've started recording quick tutorials on the most important bits of ENMTools. Here's one on how to install ENMTools and all of its dependencies:And here's one on how to build ENMTools...
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