Predict method for a nicheR Community — predict.nicheR

Iterates through all ellipses in a nicheR_community and calculates predictions (suitability or Mahalanobis distance) using predict.nicheR_ellipsoid.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'nicheR_community'
predict(object, newdata, prediction = "Mahalanobis", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

object: A nicheR_community object.
newdata: A SpatRaster, data.frame, or matrix containing at least the environmental variables used to create the reference ellipsoid in the community.
prediction: Character. The type of prediction to return. One of: "Mahalanobis" (default), "suitability", "Mahalanobis_trunc", or "suitability_trunc".
verbose: Logical. If TRUE, prints progress messages. Default is TRUE.

Value

If newdata is a SpatRaster, returns a SpatRaster where each layer represents one ellipse. If newdata is a data.frame, returns a data.frame with the original data plus one column per ellipse.