Implements the Smoothness-Penalized Deconvolution method for estimating a probability density under measurement error of Kent and Ruppert (2023) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2023.2259028>. The estimator is formed by computing a histogram of the error-contaminated data, and then finding an estimate that minimizes a reconstruction error plus a smoothness-inducing penalty term. The primary function, sped(), takes the data and error distribution, and returns the estimator as a function.

From output files obtained from the software 'ModestR', the relative contribution of factors to explain species distribution is depicted using several plots. A global geographic raster file for each environmental variable may be also obtained with the mean relative contribution, considering all species present in each raster cell, of the factor to explain species distribution. Finally, for each variable it is also possible to compare the frequencies of any variable obtained in the cells where the species is present with the frequencies of the same variable in the cells of the extent.

Inferring causation from spatial cross-sectional data through empirical dynamic modeling (EDM), with methodological extensions including geographical convergent cross mapping from Gao et al. (2023) <doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41619-6>, as well as the spatial causality test following the approach of Herrera et al. (2016) <doi:10.1111/pirs.12144>, together with geographical pattern causality proposed in Zhang et al. (2025) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2025.2581207>.

Converts the floor speeches of Uruguayan legislators, extracted from the 
    parliamentary minutes, to tidy data.frame where each observation is the intervention of a single legislator.

Scrap speech text and speaker informations of speeches of House of 
          Representatives of Brazil, and transform in a cleaned tibble.

Fitting linear models and generalized linear models to large data sets by updating algorithms, according to the method described in Enea (2009, ISBN: 9788861294257).