xnicher: Estimates Ecological Niche Models Using Ellipses

Ecological niche model estimation using ellipsoidal geometry under an M hypothesis. Fits nine likelihood families (presence-only, weighted, inverse-probability-weighted, skew-normal, skew-normal-weighted, skew-t, skew-t-weighted, ncst, and ncst-weighted) via multi-start optimisation with Sobol sequences. Methods for the optimisation of ellipses parameters are as described in Jimenez et al. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109823>.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: checkmate, Rcpp (≥ 1.1.0), RcppParallel, stats, terra, ucminfcpp, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppEigen, RcppParallel
Suggests: ggplot2 (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, pomp, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.xnicher (may not be active yet)
Author: Angel Robles [aut, cre], Laura Jimenez ORCID iD [aut, ctb]
Maintainer: Angel Robles <a.l.robles.fernandez at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/alrobles/xnicher/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/alrobles/xnicher
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: GNU make
Citation: xnicher citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: xnicher results

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Reference manual: xnicher.html , xnicher.pdf

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Package source: xnicher_1.0.0.tar.gz
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