Package: mrangr
Title: Mechanistic Metacommunity Simulator
Version: 1.0.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Katarzyna", "Markowska", , "katarzyna.markowska@amu.edu.pl", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")),
    person("Lechosław", "Kuczyński", , "lechu@amu.edu.pl", role = c("aut", "cph"))
  )
Description: 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.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
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
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
URL: https://popecol.github.io/mrangr/,
        https://github.com/popecol/mrangr,
        https://cran.r-project.org/package=mrangr
BugReports: https://github.com/popecol/mrangr/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-08-24 15:45:41 UTC; katar
Author: Katarzyna Markowska [aut, cre, cph],
  Lechosław Kuczyński [aut, cph]
Maintainer: Katarzyna Markowska <katarzyna.markowska@amu.edu.pl>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-08-24 18:40:34 UTC
