Date accepted: 2024-01-21
Submitting Author Name: Katarzyna Markowska
Submitting Author Github Handle: @katarzynam-165
Other Package Authors Github handles: @LechoslawKuczynski
Repository: https://github.com/popecol/rangr
Version submitted: 1.0.0
Submission type: Stats
Badge grade: silver
Editor: @adamhsparks
Reviewers: taddallas, @taddallas, @TheAnalyticalEdge

Archive: TBD
Version accepted: TBD
Language: en

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Package: rangr
Type: Package
Title: Mechanistic Simulation of Species Range Dynamics
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Katarzyna", "Markowska", email = "[email protected]", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Lechosław", "Kuczyński", email = "[email protected]", role = "aut"))
Description: Species range dynamics simulation toolset.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Imports:
    methods,
    parallel,
    pbapply,
    grDevices,
    graphics,
    stats,
    utils,
    zoo,
    terra,
    raster,
    assertthat
Suggests: 
    knitr,
    rmarkdown,
    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
    covr,
    bookdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
Roxygen: list (markdown = TRUE, roclets = c ("namespace", "rd", "srr::srr_stats_roclet"))
Depends: 
    R (>= 3.5.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/popecol/rangr,
    https://popecol.github.io/rangr/
BugReports: https://github.com/popecol/rangr/issues

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General Information

• Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

  rangr is an R package designed for simulating species range dynamics, primarily aimed at ecologists and conservationists who work with complex data structures such as those derived from citizen science and wildlife monitoring programs. With rangr, users can mimic the key processes that shape population numbers and spatial distributions, including local dynamics, dispersal, and habitat selection, to project population responses to environmental changes. Additionally, rangr can be used to test and evaluate different methods of modelling species distribution using simulated data as a reference.

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  rangr is the first implementation of a novel algorithm, but there are a few packages like RangeShiftR, poems, or steps that serve similar purposes. However, none of them met all the criteria that were important to us in this type of simulation, such as being easy to set up and customize with other existing R functions, supporting simulations that vary in both time and space, and incorporating the Virtual Ecologist approach by providing functions for various sampling scenarios.

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