[R-pkgs] New package: adehabitat

[Clément Calenge]

Dear all,

I have just uploaded a package to CRAN a new package called 'adehabitat'.
This package is intended for ecologists who want to analyse the use of 
space by animals.
Many functions currently used in this field are available to
highlight habitat selection by animals (selection ratios, ENFA, habitat 
suitability maps
with the algorithm DOMAIN or Resource Selection Functions)
or to describe the movements and area used in radio-tracking studies 
(kernel or
minimum convex polygon home range, computation of travel speed and turning 
angles).
ASCII raster maps exported from Arcview can also be imported, and basic GIS 
operations
are available (e.g. spatial join, computation of buffers).

The package comes with a pdf documentation file which
contains an overview of the main classes of maps available
in the package.

Questions, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Here is the description file of the package:

Package: adehabitat
Version: 1.1
Date: 2004/09/15
Title: Analysis of habitat selection by animals
Author: Clément Calenge, contributions from Mathieu Basille
Maintainer: Clément Calenge <calenge at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr>
Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), ade4
Description: A collection of tools for the analysis of habitat selection by 
animals
License: GPL version 2 or newer

Happy testing


Clément Calenge

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