'UNICOR is intended for use by land managers as well as the research community and will be a valuable tool for the study of conservation biology, by increasing our understanding of species connectivity in fragmenting future landscapes.' It's a python based stand-alone programme. Is it possible to use the programme to execute run simulation in R?
Yes and no. I have not used UNICOR, but as a standalone python script, you won't be able to run the simulation in an R environment without translating the code. However, you can run Python commands from R fairly easily.
One way to do this is to use R's "system" command, which will take a string and run it as if you were on the command line. For UNICOR that might look something like this:
system("python UNICOR.py example.rip")
Another way is to use an R package like "reticulate" to source and run Python scripts (see the sections about sourcing scripts and executing code):
https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/articles/introduction.html
If needed, you should then be able to parse the UNICOR outputs in R. Hope this helps!
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