Package: spatialRegroup
Title: Iterative Spatial Regrouping of Administrative Units by
        Attributive Affinity
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: 
    person("Nicolas", "Ausello", , "nicolasausello@yahoo.fr", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3843-0463"))
Description: Evaluates the statistical coherence of existing administrative
    partitions (e.g. inter-municipal groupings, districts) by identifying
    spatial units whose attributive profile is more similar to a neighbouring
    group than to their own. Border units are iteratively reassigned to the
    group they are most affine with, based on Euclidean or Mahalanobis
    distance computed on user-supplied numeric variables, with optional
    per-variable weighting and standardisation. Spatial contiguity is
    enforced throughout: isolated candidates are reintegrated into their
    original group, disconnected fragments are resolved, and empty groups
    are restored. Convergence is monitored via an eta-squared cohesion
    criterion. The resulting partition can be compared to the original
    administrative delineation using multilevel models, providing a
    quantitative measure of boundary inefficiency.
License: GPL-3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
Imports: dplyr, sf, spdep, igraph, rlang
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-05-06 08:49:27 UTC; User
Author: Nicolas Ausello [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-0463>)
Maintainer: Nicolas Ausello <nicolasausello@yahoo.fr>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-11 19:10:09 UTC
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