ntboxis the stable version of nichetoolbox which is an R package with a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed using shiny framework. The package aims to facilitate the process of building niche models and estimate the species distributions.

Windows users: Before installation it is important to have installed Rtools.

Mac users: Install Xcode command line tools

Linux users: please, follow the installation guide.

Complete installation guide for Windows, Linux, and MacOS users

https://luismurao.github.io/ntbox_installation_notes.html

Installation notes in Spanish due to Rusby G. Contreras-Díaz

https://luismurao.github.io/Instalacion_ntbox.html

if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('luismurao/ntbox')
# If you want to build vignette, install pandoc before and then
devtools::install_github('luismurao/ntbox',build_vignettes=TRUE)

The function that launches the GUI is

library(ntbox)
run_ntbox()

The package has three vignettes: a complete reference of the GUI, one for the ellipsoid calibration and selection using R commands and one on how to obtain and clean GBIF data

Here you can find the reference guide for the Graphical user interface https://luismurao.github.io/ntbox_user_guide.html

Users can fin help for all ntbox functions at https://luismurao.github.io/ntbox/

Please cite as

Osorio‐Olvera, L., Lira‐Noriega, A., Soberón, J., Townsend Peterson, A., Falconi, M., Contreras‐Díaz, R.G., Martínez‐Meyer, E., Barve, V. and Barve, N. (2020), ntbox: an R package with graphical user interface for modeling and evaluating multidimensional ecological niches. Methods Ecol Evol. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13452

The paper of the application is accesible from

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13452

Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas UNAM for academic training; GSoC 2016, PAIPIIT IN112175 (2015) and IN116018 (2018) for partial financial support.