This version of R package “model Evaluation and Analysis” includes some bug fixes (thanks to Huijie Qiao, Ying-Ju Tessa Chen, Oswald van Ginkel and Alba Estrada), some new functions (predPlot, confusionLabel, and mod2obspred, which is now used internally by several … Continue reading →

The ‘confusionLabel‘ function below labels the predictions of a binary response model according to their confusion matrix categories, i.e., it classifies each prediction into a false positive, false negative, true positive or true negative, given a user-defined threshold value: Usage … Continue reading →

Diagnostic plots are always a nice, visually explicit way to assess our data and predictions, and I’ve just added a new one to the modEvA R package. The ‘predPlot‘ function plots predicted values separated into observed presences and absences, and … Continue reading →

Especially since I had to start working as a freelancer, it became essential to keep an accurate record of how much time I spend on each task and project. I checked out some software tools available online (namely TimeCamp, which … Continue reading →

The ‘plot_outliers‘ function below draws a boxplot and a scatterplot of a numeric variable x and plots the values of the outliers (currently not offset, even if they overlap). For relatively small datasets, it can be a quick way to … Continue reading →

The newest version of R package fuzzySim (3.0) is now on CRAN! It includes new functions such as ‘favClass‘, ‘bioThreat‘ and ‘gridRecords‘; improvements to some functions, help files and examples; updated e-mail and citation information [ see citation(“fuzzySim”) ]; clarifications … Continue reading →

The ‘gridRecords‘ function, which has just been added to the ‘fuzzySim‘ package (from version 2.6 on), takes a raster stack and a set of spatial coordinates of a species’ presence (and optionally absence) records, and returns a data frame with … Continue reading →

The AUC function, in the modEvA package, initially computed only the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Now, since modEvA version 1.7 (currently available on R-Forge), it also offers the option to compute the precision-recall curve, which may … Continue reading →

The ‘predDensity’ function, included in the modEvA package since version 1.5 (currently available on R-Forge), produces a histogram and/or a kernel density plot of predicted values for observed presences and absences in a binomial GLM: Usage example:

The sharedFav function below implements the graphical analyses of Acevedo et al. (2010, 2012) on biogeographical interactions. It takes two vectors of favourability values at different localities for, respectively, a stronger and a weaker competing species (or two equally strong … Continue reading →