Re: [R-sig-Geo] Soil as predictor in SDM

2017-09-27 Thread Maurizio Marchi 
Dear Narayani and Ben,
thank you very much for your replies. Actually I'm working with biomod2,
not dismo neither other models outside biomod2 (i.e. I use maxent but
inside the biomod2 package) but I did it, I saw that biomod2 is able to
handle categorical (factorial) raster too :)
Thanks

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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Soil as predictor in SDM

2017-09-27 Thread Patrick Schratz 

Hi Maurizio,

I do not really understand what exactly your problem is.
Getting the soil information stored in a raster file into a data.frame?
General use of factor variables in a model?
I also do not see the link between a factor variable and model bias.

Happy to help after clarification.

Regards, Patrick

On 09/27/2017 04:59 PM, Maurizio Marchi wrote:

Dear R users,
I would like to include soil as predictor in my model and in addition to
climatic variables. Anyway I have some doubts concerning the usd of
categorical values such as the format of my raster file. Actually, my soil
type data are categorical codes, should these codes be described as
categories prior to be used? Or shoul I reclassify my raster into numeric
values? My main concern is if I would create directional influence and bias
in the results.
Thanks


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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Soil as predictor in SDM

2017-09-27 Thread Narayani Barve 
You can use categorical variable as categorical even with number. If you
are using Maxent, then you can specify that this variable as categorical.
And maxent will take care of it. On the safer side instead of specifying
the categories as numbers, change categories to characters.

Regards,
Narayani

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Maurizio Marchi <
mauriziomarch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear R users,
> I would like to include soil as predictor in my model and in addition to
> climatic variables. Anyway I have some doubts concerning the usd of
> categorical values such as the format of my raster file. Actually, my soil
> type data are categorical codes, should these codes be described as
> categories prior to be used? Or shoul I reclassify my raster into numeric
> values? My main concern is if I would create directional influence and bias
> in the results.
> Thanks
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> Maurizio Marchi
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> linux user 552742
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Soil as predictor in SDM

2017-09-27 Thread Ben Tupper 
Hi,

This is addressed briefly in section 4.2 of the dismo package vignette.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/vignettes/sdm.pdf 


Does that answer your question?

Ben

> On Sep 27, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Maurizio Marchi  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear R users,
> I would like to include soil as predictor in my model and in addition to
> climatic variables. Anyway I have some doubts concerning the usd of
> categorical values such as the format of my raster file. Actually, my soil
> type data are categorical codes, should these codes be described as
> categories prior to be used? Or shoul I reclassify my raster into numeric
> values? My main concern is if I would create directional influence and bias
> in the results.
> Thanks
> -- 
> Maurizio Marchi
> Skype ID: maurizioxyz
> linux user 552742
> 
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[R-sig-Geo] Soil as predictor in SDM

2017-09-27 Thread Maurizio Marchi 
Dear R users,
I would like to include soil as predictor in my model and in addition to
climatic variables. Anyway I have some doubts concerning the usd of
categorical values such as the format of my raster file. Actually, my soil
type data are categorical codes, should these codes be described as
categories prior to be used? Or shoul I reclassify my raster into numeric
values? My main concern is if I would create directional influence and bias
in the results.
Thanks
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Maurizio Marchi
Skype ID: maurizioxyz
linux user 552742

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