ntboxis the stable version of nichetoolbox which is an R package with a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed using shiny framework. The package aims to facilitate the process of building niche models and estimate the species distributions.
Windows users: Before installation it is important to have installed Rtools.
Mac users: Install Xcode command line tools
Linux users: please, follow the installation guide.
Complete installation guide for Windows, Linux, and MacOS users https://luismurao.github.io/ntbox_installation_notes.html
if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools') devtools::install_github('luismurao/ntbox') # If you want to build vignette, install pandoc before and then devtools::install_github('luismurao/ntbox',build_vignettes=TRUE)
The function that launches the GUI is
The package has three vignettes: a complete reference of the GUI, one for the ellipsoid calibration and selection using R commands and one on how to obtain and clean GBIF data
Here you can find the reference guide for the Graphical user interface https://luismurao.github.io/ntbox_user_guide.html