ppgm

1.1

PaleoPhyloGeographic Modeling of Climate Niches and Species Distributions

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Overview

About

Maintained by Alexandra HowardFirst published 2024-06-112 releasesCRAN page ↗

Reconstruction of paleoclimate niches using phylogenetic comparative methods and projection reconstructed niches onto paleoclimate maps. The user can specify various models of trait evolution or estimate the best fit model, include fossils, use one or multiple phylogenies for inference, and make animations of shifting suitable habitat through time. This model was first used in Lawing and Polly (2011), and further implemented in Lawing et al (2016) and Rivera et al (2020). Lawing and Polly (2011) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028554 "Pleistocene climate, phylogeny and climate envelope models: An integrative approach to better understand species' response to climate change" Lawing et al (2016) doi:10.1086/687202 "Including fossils in phylogenetic climate reconstructions: A deep time perspective on the climatic niche evolution and diversification of spiny lizards (Sceloporus)" Rivera et al (2020) doi:10.1111/jbi.13915 "Reconstructing historical shifts in suitable habitat of Sceloporus lineages using phylogenetic niche modelling.".

Install

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

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

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

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-ppgm

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-ppgm

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 14.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-04-25
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NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10sp sf

Imports (11)

ape fields geiger gifskimethodsphangorn phytools stringiparalleldoParallel foreach

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none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Alexandra Howard

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Alexandra Howard

Author, Maintainer

Maria-Aleja Hurtado-Materon

Author

A. Michelle Lawing

Author, Copyright holder

A. Michelle Lawing

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1Latest
2025-03-12 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.3
2024-06-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-11
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 4.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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