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Find objective environmental resolution using the Nearest Neighbor Elbow Method

Source: R/find_env_resolution.R
find_env_resolution.Rd

Calculates an objective, data-driven grid resolution for environmental thinning. Instead of relying on user-defined quantiles, this function analyzes the 1D Nearest Neighbor (NN) distances for each environmental variable. It uses the geometric "elbow" method (point of maximum curvature) to identify the exact distance where dense artificial clustering transitions into natural data spacing.

Usage

find_env_resolution(data, env_vars)

Arguments

data

A data.frame containing environmental variables.

env_vars

A character vector specifying the environmental variables to analyze.

Value

An object of class bean_env_resolution