Package: nicheR
Type: Package
Title: Ellipsoid-Based Virtual Niches and Visualization
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person(
      "Mariana", "Castaneda-Guzman",
      email = "marianacg@vt.edu", 
      role = c("aut", "cre"), 
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6106-4284")
    ),
    person(
      "Connor", "Hughes",
      email = "connorjh@vt.edu", 
      role = "aut",
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3720-0837")
    ),
    person(
      "Paanwaris", "Paansri",
      email = "paanwaris@vt.edu", 
      role = "aut",
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9992-098X")
    ),
    person(
      "Marlon E.", "Cobos",
      email = "manubio13@gmail.com", 
      role = "aut",
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2611-1767")
    )
  )
Description: Provides a robust set of tools for researchers and
        modelers to construct and define virtual ecological niches
        using ellipsoid geometries. It enables the identification and
        extraction of suitable environmental areas, simulation of
        species occurrence points with various sampling strategies, and
        visualization of niche boundaries and simulated occurrences in
        both environmental and geographic space. Inspired by
        methodologies in 'NicheA' and the 'virtualspecies' R package,
        'nicheR' aims to streamline the process of niche
        conceptualization and data generation for ecological studies.
        Methodological and theoretical foundations are described in
        Peterson et al. (2011, ISBN:9780691136882), Etherington et al.
        (2009) <doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02041.x>, Qiao et al.
        (2015) <doi:10.1111/ecog.01961>, Nunez-Penichet et al. (2021)
        <doi:10.21425/F5FBG52142>, Cobos and Peterson (2022)
        <doi:10.17161/bi.v17i.15985>, Alkishe et al. (2022)
        <doi:10.5194/we-22-33-2022>, and Leroy et al. (2015)
        <doi:10.1111/ecog.01388>.
URL: https://github.com/castanedaM/nicheR,
        https://castanedam.github.io/nicheR/
BugReports: https://github.com/castanedaM/nicheR/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.5)
Imports: terra
Suggests: rgl (>= 1.3), knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libproj-dev
        libsqlite3-dev
Repository: https://castanedam.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-19 15:30:59 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/castanedam/nicher
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 1df19f1b26a6b4ab06aa3ee139cf78f032a80132
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-17 08:06:29 UTC; root
Author: Mariana Castaneda-Guzman [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6106-4284>),
  Connor Hughes [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3720-0837>),
  Paanwaris Paansri [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9992-098X>),
  Marlon E. Cobos [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2611-1767>)
Maintainer: Mariana Castaneda-Guzman <marianacg@vt.edu>