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lang="EN-GB">Dear BIOMOD-users,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span
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;"
lang="EN-GB"><span style=""></span></span></p>
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style="font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">You
can install it in R typing : </span></span>
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255); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br>
</span><strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; "><code
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit;
font-weight: inherit; font-family: monospace; line-height:
11.111111640930176px; ">install.packages("biomod2", repos=
c(<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://R-Forge.R-project.org">"http://R-Forge.R-project.org"</a>,
getOption("repos")), dependencies=TRUE)<br>
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</code></strong></b></p>
<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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font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span"
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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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
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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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
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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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
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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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
lang="EN-GB">Hoping you will enjoy this new version of BIOMOD.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"
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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