virtualspecies: Generation of Virtual Species Distributions

Provides a framework for generating virtual species distributions, a procedure increasingly used in ecology to improve species distribution models. This package integrates the existing methodological approaches with the objective of generating virtual species distributions with increased ecological realism.

Version:	1.6.1
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5), terra
Imports:	ade4, graphics, grDevices, rnaturalearth, raster, stats, utils, viridis
Published:	2025-10-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.virtualspecies
Author:	Boris Leroy [cre, aut], Christine N. Meynard [ctb], Celine Bellard [ctb], Franck Courchamp [ctb], Robin Delsol [ctb], Willson Gaul [ctb]
Maintainer:	Boris Leroy <leroy.boris at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/Farewe/virtualspecies/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2.0)]
URL:	https://borisleroy.com/virtualspecies/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	virtualspecies citation info
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	virtualspecies results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

virtualspecies.html , virtualspecies.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	virtualspecies_1.6.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: virtualspecies_1.6.1.zip, r-release: virtualspecies_1.6.1.zip, r-oldrel: virtualspecies_1.6.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): virtualspecies_1.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): virtualspecies_1.6.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): virtualspecies_1.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): virtualspecies_1.6.1.tgz
Old sources:	virtualspecies archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:

LPDynR

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