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        lang="EN-GB">Dear BIOMOD-users,</span></p>
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        style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
        lang="EN-GB">You were eagerly waiting for it, and we are happy
        to say that the new version of BIOMOD called biomod2 is now
        online on R-Forge. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"
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          can install it in R typing : </span></span>
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    <span style="font-family: Helvetica;" lang="EN-GB">Although we kept
      the same modelling philosophy than the former version (which we
      will still maintain for a while), we have made crucial changes.
      biomod2 is now fully object-oriented and made for running on a
      single species only (see vignette </span><a
      href="../../../library/biomod2/doc/Multi_species_computation.pdf"
      target="_blank">MultiSpeciesModelling</a>
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        style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span></span><span
      style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
      lang="EN-GB">for multi-species modelling at once). For advanced
      BIOMOD users, the new functions might be a bit disturbing at the
      beginning. Then, you will see that this new version is much more
      advanced and practical than the former ones. Among the novelties,
      the addition of MAXENT in the modelling techniques, a large range
      of evaluation metrics, a more refined definition of ensemble
      modelling and ensemble forecasting, the possibility to give
      presence-only data and environmental rasters to biomod2 and let it
      extract pseudo-absence data directly.</span>
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        lang="EN-GB">We have created several vignettes for you to get
        use to this new version and a figure explaining the different
        ways of giving data to BIOMOD.</span></p>
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        lang="EN-GB">Please bear in mind that R-Forge is a development
        platform, it means that this new package would experience
        repeated updating the next couple of weeks (correcting bugs,
        adding documentation, adding functionalities) so think about
        updating the package before each new study you will do.</span></p>
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        lang="EN-GB">Last but not least, all comments are welcome! If
        you find a bug, if you think some documentation points are
        unclear, if you think about new functionalities that may be
        useful, just let us know ASAP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        lang="EN-GB">We count on you to help finalizing this new version
        to a very nice tool. We will then release it to CRAN by the end
        of July. Please remember to add your code, R-version, OS and
        BIOMOD-version every time you report a bug or a mistake in the
        vignette or help files.</span></p>
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        lang="EN-GB">Hoping you will enjoy this new version of BIOMOD.</span></p>
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        lang="EN-GB">With our best wishes, </span></p>
    <span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
      lang="EN-GB">Damien & Wilfried </span>
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