Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-10-12 Thread Jin.Li
: Wednesday, 8 October 2008 3:47 To: R Help Subject: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R Dear all, I have strong interest on Ecological Niche Model, which in general use a set of environmental variables (continuous, categorical etc) and Presence (or Presense/Absence) records for species. I think

Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R

2008-10-08 Thread Clément Calenge
It's very kind of Stephen to plug my book, but it's notwhat you're looking for. You need to read more about this general topic, and aboutthe particular packages: try http://www.unine.ch/CSCF/grasp/grasp-r/index.htmlhttp://www.unine.ch/CSCF/grasp/ Based on downloading grasp , it doesn't

Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R

2008-10-08 Thread milton ruser
Dear All, Thanks for all very interesting replies. In fact I have read all the recent publications on ENM (Ecological Niche Modeling), and many of them use GARP (Genetic Algorithm for Rule Prediction; sensu STockwell Peterson 2001) and Maxent (Maximum Entropy sensu Philips Dudik, 2008a, b)

Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R

2008-10-08 Thread Kingsford Jones
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:17 AM, milton ruser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Finally, in fact GRASP do what I am looking for, and I am starting to compare the results of this packages with other very wel- know softwares (DescktopGarp, Maxent, OpenModeller). If someone of you have suggestions

Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R

2008-10-07 Thread stephen sefick
that is a pretty big question. And I am not qualified to answer it, but my suggestion- from figuring out how to use other things- is to find out how other people have modeled ecological niches- not necessarily with R, and then try and find out functions that preform the pieces or the whole

Re: [R] Ecological Niche Modelling on R

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Bolker
stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com writes: that is a pretty big question. And I am not qualified to answer it, but my suggestion- from figuring out how to use other things- is to find out how other people have modeled ecological niches- not necessarily with R, and then try and find out