chessboard: An R package for creating network connections based on chess moves
Nicolas Casajus, Érica Rievrs Borges, Éric Tabacchi, Guillaume Fried, Nicolas Mouquet · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2023
chessboard aims to facilitate the creation of connectivity matrices for sampling networks designed as regular grids.It can handle directed (asymmetric) and undirected (symmetric) spatial (or non-spatial) network connections.chessboard offers various methods to detect neighbors, all based on the chess game, allowing the creation of complex connectivity scenarios.