Evaluating maxnet() model

[Žan Kuralt]

Hello all!

I wonder what are the options of evaluating a model produced by maxnet() function of a maxnet package. I was not able to find much information on the web, so I decided to try here. While ENMeval package works well with the maxent output from dismo package, I was not able to get it working with maxnet() output.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!

[Jamie M. Kass]

Maxnet models are just like Maxent models, just fit in a slightly different way. You should be able to evaluate them in the same way. What did you want to do?

We are working on a new ENMeval version that can run maxnet models, but we haven't prepared it quite yet for a formal release. There's a dev version on Github -- please check it out and test it if you'd like to try this new functionality. You can download and install packages from Github with the install_github() function from devtools.

Jamie Kass
PhD Candidate
City College of NY

[Lo B.]

I tried to post a new topic on this without success, but it is relevant to the original post here.  I would like to evaluate predictor importance. Since ENMeval is not ready, do you have other suggestions for how to do this?  I tried the varImp function from the caret package but it kept throwing errors, I don't know if it's because the maxnet object isn't exactly the dame as a glmnet object.