biomod2

4.3-4-6

Ensemble Platform for Species Distribution Modeling

5packages depend

85.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Maya GuéguenFirst published 2012-11-0926 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for species distribution modeling, calibration and evaluation, ensemble of models, ensemble forecasting and visualization. The package permits to run consistently up to 10 single models on a presence/absences (resp presences/pseudo-absences) dataset and to combine them in ensemble models and ensemble projections. Some bench of other evaluation and visualisation tools are also available within the package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("biomod2", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("biomodhub/biomod2")

Development version from biomodhub/biomod2. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-biomod2

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-biomod2

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 17.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-04-27
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 847 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 7%

Downloads

85.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,515 · ~234/day · ~7.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ biomodhub/biomod2

128Stars

31Forks

21Open issues

2Open PRs

11Releases

1,259Commits

14Contributors

1,259 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · +4.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

41 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (18)

statsutilsmethodsterra sp reshape reshape2 abind foreach ggplot2 gbmrpartMASSpROC PresenceAbsence dplyr rlang scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (30)

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Maya Guéguen

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.3-4-3

Authors (4)

Maya Guéguen

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.3-4-3

Hélène Blancheteau

Author · added in 4.3-4-3

Rémi Lemaire-Patin

Author · added in 4.3-4-3

Wilfried Thuiller

Author

Listed in earlier versions (7)

Robin Engler

no longer listed · 2.15.2 to 4.2-6-2

Damien Georges

no longer listed · 2.15.2 to 4.2-6-2

Frank Breiner

no longer listed · 3.3-7 to 4.2-6-2

Maya Gueguen

no longer listed · 3.5.1 to 4.2-6-2

Bruno Lafourcade

no longer listed · 4.1-2 to 4.2-6-2

Remi Patin

no longer listed · 4.1-2 to 4.2-6-2

Helene Blancheteau

no longer listed · 4.2-5 to 4.2-6-2

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-11-09
Total releases: 26 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 299 KB / 7 files
Download size: 5.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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