shar: An R package to analyze species-habitat associations using point pattern analysis

Abstract

Studying species-habitat associations is one approach to reveal the importance of abiotic processes in shaping the spatial distribution of species. Even though the `R` programming language offers many packages for spatial point pattern analysis, currently there is no comprehensive package specifically designed to analyze species-habitat associations. The `shar` package builds on widely used `R` packages for spatial analyses and provides an easy and straightforward way to uncover species-habitat associations for discrete environmental data.