Package: spbal
Type: Package
Title: Spatially Balanced Sampling Algorithms
Version: 1.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Phil", "Davies", email = "philip.davies@canterbury.ac.nz", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Blair", "Robertson", email = "blair.robertson@canterbury.ac.nz", role = c("aut")),
    person("Paul", "van Dam-Bates", email = "paul.vandambates@gmail.com", role = c("aut")),
    person("Oliver", "Gansell", email = "ogansell@doc.govt.nz", role = c("aut")))
Description: Encapsulates a number of spatially balanced sampling algorithms,
    namely, Balanced Acceptance Sampling (equal, unequal, seed point, panels), Halton frames 
    (for discretizing a continuous resource), Halton Iterative Partitioning (equal probability), 
    Simple Random Sampling, Dynamic Assignment Sampling and Doubly balanced Dynamic Assignment Sampling.
    Robertson, B. L., Brown, J. A., McDonald, T. and Jaksons, P. (2013) <doi:10.1111/biom.12059>.
    Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004>.
    Robertson, B. L., McDonald, T., Price, C. J. and Brown, J. A. (2018) <doi:10.1007/s10651-018-0406-6>.
    Robertson, B. L., van Dam-Bates, P. and Gansell, O. (2021a) <doi:10.1007/s10651-020-00481-1>.
    Robertson, B. L., Davies, P., Gansell, O., van Dam-Bates, P., McDonald, T. (2025) <doi:10.1111/anzs.12435>.
    Robertson, B.L., Price, C.J., Reale, M., Davies, P. (2026) <doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujag011>.
    Robertson, B.L., Price, C.J., Reale, M., Davies, P. (2026) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smag021>.
Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: units, sf, Rcpp (>= 1.0.0)
SystemRequirements: C++17
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), bookdown, ggplot2,
        gridExtra, reshape2
VignetteBuilder: knitr
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppThread
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-10-29 19:50:31 UTC; phil
Author: Phil Davies [aut, cre],
  Blair Robertson [aut],
  Paul van Dam-Bates [aut],
  Oliver Gansell [aut]
Maintainer: Phil Davies <philip.davies@canterbury.ac.nz>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-10-30 10:00:02 UTC
