Package: FINN
Type: Package
Title: Forest Informed Neural Networks
Version: 0.2.0
Authors@R: 
    c(person(given = "Yannek",
             family = "Käber",
             role = c("aut", "cre"),
             email = "y.kaeber@posteo.de",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7041-9849")),
      person(given = "Maximilian",
             family = "Pichler",
             role = "aut",
             email = "maximilian.pichler@biologie.uni-regensburg.de",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2252-8327")))
Maintainer: Yannek Käber <y.kaeber@posteo.de>
Description: A hybrid dynamic forest (gap) model (FINN) that can be
        configured as a fully mechanistic, process-based model, like
        classic forest gap models, or with its demographic processes
        (growth, mortality, regeneration) replaced by deep neural
        networks (DNNs), or any combination of the two. Provides
        functions to define a model and its mechanistic or empirical
        components, calibrate it to forest inventory data, and
        interpret the calibrated processes. FINN is implemented with
        the 'torch' package, which supplies GPU support and the
        automatic differentiation used to calibrate the model by
        stochastic gradient descent; no knowledge of 'torch' is
        required. The hybrid modeling approach is described in Pichler
        and Käber (2026) <doi:10.1111/2041-210x.70347>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
URL: https://github.com/FINNverse/FINN,
        https://finnverse.github.io/FINN/
BugReports: https://github.com/FINNverse/FINN/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Imports: abind, cli, stats, utils, data.table, coro, Rcpp, torch,
        ggplot2, glue
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Roxygen: list(old_usage = FALSE, markdown = TRUE)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Repository: https://finnverse.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-09-22 12:24:15 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/finnverse/finn
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 609a30c72e5936012cf2121a81981858f8f07633
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-09-22 15:42:50 UTC; root
Author: Yannek Käber [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7041-9849>),
  Maximilian Pichler [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2252-8327>)
