Automatic generation and selection of spatial predictors for spatial regression with Random Forest. Spatial predictors are surrogates of variables driving the spatial structure of a response variable. The package offers two methods to generate spatial predictors from a distance matrix among training cases: 1) Moran's Eigenvector Maps (MEMs; Dray, Legendre, and Peres-Neto 2006 <DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.02.015>): computed as the eigenvectors of a weighted matrix of distances; 2) RFsp (Hengl et al. <DOI:10.7717/peerj.5518>): columns of the distance matrix used as spatial predictors. Spatial predictors help minimize the spatial autocorrelation of the model residuals and facilitate an honest assessment of the importance scores of the non-spatial predictors. Additionally, functions to reduce multicollinearity, identify relevant variable interactions, tune random forest hyperparameters, assess model transferability via spatial cross-validation, and explore model results via partial dependence curves and interaction surfaces are included in the package. The modelling functions are built around the highly efficient 'ranger' package (Wright and Ziegler 2017 <DOI:10.18637/jss.v077.i01>).

Provides methods for spatial risk calculations, focusing on 
    efficient determination of the sum of observations within a circle of a 
    given radius. These methods are particularly relevant for applications such 
    as insurance, where recent European Commission regulations require the 
    calculation of the maximum insured value of fire risk policies for all 
    buildings that are partly or fully located within a 200 m radius. The 
    underlying problem is described by Church (1974) <doi:10.1007/BF01942293>.

Provides robust estimation for spatial error model to presence of outliers in the residuals. The classical estimation methods can be influenced by the presence of outliers in the data. We proposed a robust estimation approach based on the robustified likelihood equations for spatial error model (Vural Yildirim & Yeliz Mert Kantar (2020): Robust estimation approach for spatial error model, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, <doi:10.1080/00949655.2020.1740223>).