Roadmap

The goal of this page is to come up with a roadmap of functionalities needed for funbiogeo to prioritize the features to be developed.

Core features

• Load all primary data (site × species, species × sites, sites × environment).
• Match these data to get correspondence between them.
• Filter sites according to a given trait completion threshold (e.g. keeping records of sites/species where at least 80% of species are in the trait dataset).
• Compute Community-Weighted Mean using these sites.

Minimum Viable Product

• Compute other types of functional diversity metrics.
• Mechanisms to integrate site information at coarse scale (upscaling), basically pulling the information at these scales and recompute functional diversity.
• Plots of environment vs. functional diversity metrics.

Nice Additional features

• a shiny app that would display all processes and allow you to filter your dataset on the fly.
• a nice full example with a dataset to demonstrate how can funbiogeo facilitate functional biogeographic analyses.
• write wrappers that let you present site × species information in a tidy format and that automatically converts it to matrix format (see funrar::tidy_to_matrix()).

Real bonus

• parallel computation where needed.
• compatibility with Matrix sparse matrices (actually cheap to implement).
• linking to automatic trait retrieval databases? automatic occurrences retrieval? (that's a lot of work...).