gridHR: Grid-Based Home-Range Analysis and Radial Space-Use Profiles

Tools for estimating and exploring animal home ranges from geographical locations using regular spatial grids of square or hexagonal cells; see Ford and Krumme (1979) <doi:10.1016/0022-5193(79)90366-7>. The package includes grid-based home-range estimation across different cell sizes, analyses of the relationship between grid-cell size and home-range area and spatial connectivity, and rarefaction analyses to evaluate how home-range estimates change with increasing numbers of locations. It also introduces a novel radial approach for characterizing the internal organization of space use by quantifying how space-use intensity changes with increasing distance from the centre toward the periphery of the home range.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: dplyr, ggplot2, sf
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gridHR (may not be active yet)
Author: Norberto Asensio ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Norberto Asensio <norberto.asensio at ehu.eus>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: gridHR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gridHR.html , gridHR.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to gridHR library (source, R code)
Grid-based home-range plot (source, R code)
Home-range size across grid-cell sizes (source, R code)
Grid-based home-range rarefaction (source, R code)
Minimum grid-cell size based on home-range connectivity (source, R code)
Radial space-use profile of a grid-based home range (source, R code)

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Package source: gridHR_1.0.0.tar.gz
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