areaOfEffect: Spatial Support at Scale
Formalizes spatial support at scale for ecological and geographical analysis. Given points and support polygons, classifies points as "core" (inside original support) or "halo" (inside scaled support but outside original), pruning all others. The default scale produces equal core and halo areas - a geometrically derived choice requiring no tuning. An optional mask enforces hard boundaries such as coastlines. Political borders are treated as soft boundaries with no ecological meaning.
| Version: | 0.2.4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| Imports: | methods, sf |
| Suggests: | lwgeom, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, svglite |
| Published: | 2026-02-06 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.areaOfEffect |
| Author: | Gilles Colling 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Gilles Colling <gilles.colling051 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/gcol33/areaOfEffect/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://gillescolling.com/areaOfEffect/, https://github.com/gcol33/areaOfEffect |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | areaOfEffect results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | areaOfEffect.html , areaOfEffect.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Quick Start (source, R code) Theory (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | areaOfEffect_0.2.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: areaOfEffect_0.2.4.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): areaOfEffect_0.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): areaOfEffect_0.2.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): areaOfEffect_0.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): areaOfEffect_0.2.4.tgz |
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