rectHull: Rectangular hull model
In dismo: Species Distribution Modeling

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

The Rectangular Hull model predicts that a species is present at sites inside the minimum (rotated) bounding rectangle of a set of training points, and absent outside that rectangle.

1	rectHull(p, ...)

`p`	point locations (presence). Two column matrix, data.frame or SpatialPoints* object
`...`	Additional arguments. See details

You can supply an argument n (>= 1) to get n hulls around subset of the points. This uses k-means to form clusters. To reproduce the clusters you may need to use set.seed.

An object of class 'RectangularHull' (inherits from DistModel-class)

Robert J. Hijmans. Using an algorithm by whuber and Bangyou on gis.stackexchange.com

predict, circleHull, convHull, maxent, domain, mahal

r <- raster(system.file("external/rlogo.grd", package="raster"))
# presence data
pts <- matrix(c(17, 42, 85, 70, 19, 53, 26, 84, 84, 46, 48, 85, 4, 95, 48, 54, 66, 
 74, 50, 48, 28, 73, 38, 56, 43, 29, 63, 22, 46, 45, 7, 60, 46, 34, 14, 51, 70, 31, 39, 26), ncol=2)
train <- pts[1:12, ]
test <- pts[13:20, ]
				 
rh <- rectHull(train)
predict(rh, test)

plot(r)
plot(rh, border='red', lwd=2, add=TRUE)
points(train, col='red', pch=20, cex=2)
points(test, col='black', pch=20, cex=2)

pr <- predict(rh, r, progress='')
plot(pr)
points(test, col='black', pch=20, cex=2)
points(train, col='red', pch=20, cex=2)