Changelog • spAbundance

spAbundance 0.1.2

Added in the independent.betas tag into the priors list for certain multi-species model types to allow for specifying an independent prior on the species-specific random effects as opposed to treating species-specific effects as random effects. This can be useful under certain circumstances when the distribution of effects across species may not be adequately represented by a Gaussian distribution. This tag is available for the following functions: lfMsAbund (Gaussian only), sfMsAbund (Gaussian only), and svcMsAbund.
Fixed a bug in zero-inflated Gaussian latent factor abundance models (lfMsAbund).

CRAN release: 2024-03-22

Updated the neonDWP data set after NEON announced an error in some of the bird point count data (more information here. Also updated the associated vignette that uses these data.
Updated the msAbund() function to make it compatible with spOccupancy::updateMCMC(), which allows for picking up a model run where it left off instead of having to restart the MCMC from scratch. I am planning to allow this functionality for all model fitting functions in spAbundance in a future version.
Updated all model fitting functions to fix a potential error that could arise in the calculation of Rhat that could lead to the function failing under certain circumstances. This was particularly the case in multi-species models with large amounts of rare species.

CRAN release: 2023-10-20