Exploring tidysdm

Here we try our hand with the tidysdm, which is a Species Distribution Modeling (“sdm”) wrapper around and extension of the tidymodels suite of R packages. We’ll walk through the steps shown in tidysdm’s overview vignette using our Mola mola dataset. We already have a good sense of our obseravtions and covariates so we can skip the data preparation steps.

Important

First we need to install a developmental version of tidysdm. The dev branch is subject to a pull request; it has been accepted into the upstream repos and it will work its way into a CRAN release.

remotes::install_github("EvolEcolGroup/tidysdm", ref = "dev")

Similar to our traditional approach, we can look at the major steps of

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