mrangr: Mechanistic Metacommunity Simulator

A forward simulator for generating synthetic metacommunity data. As an in silico experimental platform, it enables researchers to simulate community shifts, test theoretical frameworks, and benchmark analytical algorithms prior to empirical application. Key capabilities include mechanistic simulations driven by demography, dispersal, and interactions, GIS interoperability via the 'terra' package for dynamic environments, and a virtual ecologist module that simulates imperfect detection and survey errors to mimic real-world biodiversity data.

Version: 1.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: assertthat, FieldSimR, graphics, grDevices, gstat, methods, mgcv, parallel, rangr, RColorBrewer, stats, terra, utils
Suggests: bookdown, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tools
Published: 2026-08-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.mrangr
Author: Katarzyna Markowska [aut, cre, cph], Lechosław Kuczyński [aut, cph]
Maintainer: Katarzyna Markowska <katarzyna.markowska at amu.edu.pl>
BugReports: https://github.com/popecol/mrangr/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://popecol.github.io/mrangr/, https://github.com/popecol/mrangr, https://cran.r-project.org/package=mrangr
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: mrangr citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: mrangr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: mrangr.html , mrangr.pdf
Vignettes: How to use mrangr? (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: mrangr_1.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: mrangr_1.0.2.zip, r-release: mrangr_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: mrangr_1.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): mrangr_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): mrangr_1.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): mrangr_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): mrangr_1.0.2.tgz
Old sources: mrangr archive

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