NEWS

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caretSDM 1.9.5

• Assertion on add_scenarios were missing.
• get_ensembles now returns maps and not just the final matrix.

caretSDM 1.9.4

• Mapview from ensembles and predictions were corrected.

caretSDM 1.9.3

• New assertions to avoid errors when plotting, using MEM, ESM, PDP, validation metrics, background and scenarios.
• Correction for MaxEnt: models were trained using background as presences.
• Inclusion of a first draft of a stacking meta-learner modeling (stack_sdm).
• I changed the print objects to be more similar with ODMAP protocol.

caretSDM 1.9.2

• 'crs' argument in occurrences_sdm and sdm_area is now changed to 'occ_crs' and 'output_crs', respectively.

caretSDM 1.9.1

• The process now accepts that models can fail.

caretSDM 1.9

• Some packages were moved from Imports do Suggestions and now are used conditionally along the package functions.

caretSDM 1.8.3 (2026-05-12)

• Inclusion of ECDFniche to provide the mahalanobis distance method.

caretSDM 1.8.2

• Models IDs were changed.

caretSDM 1.8.1

• A minor adjustment to predict_sdm was necessary to allow for multiple scenarios.

caretSDM 1.8

• New wrapper for multicollinearity reduction with PCA, VIF and custom functions.
• Pseudoabsences and ensemble now accept custom functions.
• crop_by in sdm_area now performs masking.

caretSDM 1.7

• predict_sdm doesn't perform ensembles anymore.
• Ensembles are included in the ensembles_sdm function.
• All adjusts necessary to properly perform that operation, including tests, are implemented.
• Vignettes and examples were changed to include ensembles_sdm function.
• data_clean now accepts a custom function to clean occurrences.

caretSDM 1.6.1

• Inclusion of background selection through a custom function.

caretSDM 1.6

• Inclusion of pseudoabsence selection through a custom function.

caretSDM 1.5 (2026-03-10)

• Ensembles and projections performance were dramatically tunned to be more efficient.

caretSDM 1.4

• Package assertions is now performed by checkCLI package.

caretSDM 1.3

• caretSDM now does not allow to run maxent without previously run the background function.

caretSDM 1.2.5 (2026-01-08)

• buffer_sdm function now has a convex hull argument, allowing a buffer to be created around it.
• WorldClim_data function now uses httr2 package to gracefully handle errors.

caretSDM 1.2.4

• input_sdm now checks if user passed occurrences to join_area.

caretSDM 1.2.3 (2025-11-06)

• There was a problem with add_scenarios function when adding a stars with a crop_by.

caretSDM 1.2.2

• A CRS correction for add_scenarios function was missing for the crop_area parameter.

caretSDM 1.2.1

• A error on plots assertion was corrected to better describe assertion problems.

caretSDM 1.2

• Inclusion of MaxEnt and Mahalanobis Distance directly on caretSDM.
• Pseudoabsences can now be retrieved outside a buffer.
• Inclusion of functions: correlate_sdm, prediction_change_sdm and tuneGrid_sdm.

caretSDM 1.1.5

• Plotting ensemble predictions is working. Added blockCV methods for crossvalidation.

caretSDM 1.1.4 (2025-08-29)

• Inclusion of functions to add different classes together, as well as plots for niche and background. First attempts to include independent test data. tSNE is also working properly now. Inclusion of testing to improve code coverage.

caretSDM 1.1.3

• Inclusion of Ensemble of Small Models in caretSDM.

caretSDM 1.1.2

• Inclusion of methods to include new algorithms in caretSDM.

caretSDM 1.1.1

• Inclusion of Non-native Distribution using caretSDM with adaptations on sdm_area function to allow the use of scenarios that do not particularly match the modeling area.

caretSDM 1.1.0 (2025-07-09)

• Initial CRAN submission.