[R] [R-pkgs] PVAClone: new package for population viability analysis

2012-08-27 Thread Peter Solymos
Dear UseRs! We are pleased to announce the release of our new package 'PVAClone'. The 'PVAClone' package implements Population Viability Analysis (PVA) methodology using data cloning. The data cloning algorithm by Lele et al. (2007, 2010) is employed to compute maximum likelihood estimates of the

[R] [R-pkgs] New version: dclone 1.7-1 and dcmle 0.1-4 rolled out

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Solymos
"parchains") stopCluster(cl) m I am grateful for the feedback and support provided by a growing user base. Special thanks to Martyn Plummer for exposing RNG handling in rjags for better integration, and to Khurram Nadeem for catching the most annoying bugs on the test run. Cheers, Pet

[R] [R-pkgs] dclone 1.3-0

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Solymos
via the 'snow' package. Have fun, Peter Peter Solymos Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute and Boreal Avian Modelling project Department of Biological Sciences CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada Phone: 780.492.8534 F

[R] [R-pkgs] mefa 3.0-0

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Solymos
Dear R Community, I am pleased to announce that a new version of the mefa R package is available at the CRAN. mefa is a package for multivariate data handling in ecology and biogeography. It provides object classes to represent the data coded by samples, taxa and segments (i.e., subpopulations, r