## S4 method for signature 'matrix,matrix'
ecolim(x, y, extrapolate=TRUE, ...)

# get predictor variables
fnames <- list.files(path=paste(system.file(package="dismo"), '/ex', sep=''), 
              pattern='grd', full.names=TRUE ) 
env <- stack(fnames)

bio1 <- c(200,250,400,450)
bio12 <- c(0,1000, 3000, 4000)
r1 <- c(0, 1, 1, 0)
r2 <- c(0, 0, 1, 1)
x <- cbind(bio1, bio12)
y <- cbind(r1, r2)

e <- ecolim(x, y) 
plot(e, lwd=2, col='red')
p <- predict(e, env)
plot(p)

# no extrapolation:
ef <- ecolim(x, y, extrapolate=FALSE) 
pf <- predict(ef, env)
plot(pf)


occurence <- paste(system.file(package="dismo"), '/ex/bradypus.csv', sep='')
occ <- read.table(occurence, header=TRUE, sep=',')[,-1]
fold <- kfold(occ, k=5)
occtest <- occ[fold == 1, ]
occtrain <- occ[fold != 1, ]
bg <- randomPoints(env, 1000)


## Not run: 
# An approach to optimize the values based on
# some known presences and (here random) absences
# for the same species as in the maxent example

# intial parameters
v <- c(200, 250, 400, 450, 0, 1000, 3000, 4000)

# function to be minimized
f <- function(p) {
	x[] <- p
	# numbers must go up
	if ( any(x[-1,] < x[-nrow(x), ]) ) return(Inf)
	e <- ecolim(x, y) 
	# we are minimizing, hence 1-AUC
	1-evaluate(e, p=occtrain, a=bg, x=env)@auc
}

# patience...
set.seed(0)
z <- optim(v, f)

x[] <- z$par
eco <- ecolim(x, y) 
evaluate(eco, p=occtest, a=bg, x=env)

set.seed(0)
pwd <- pwdSample(occtest,bg,occtrain)
ptest <- occtest[!is.na(pwd),]
atest <- bg[na.omit(pwd),]
evaluate(eco, p=ptest, a=atest, x=env)

p2 <- predict(eco, env)
plot(p2)

## End(Not run)