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		Estimating Effective Migration Surfaces from Single Nucleotide
		Polymorphism Data // Wrapper and plotting utilities for the
		spatial population genetics tool 'EEMS' (Estimated Effective
		Migration Surfaces) for SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism)
		data, originally provided as a command-line tool written in
		'C++' together with an accompanying 'R' package for plotting
		the output of the 'EEMS' tool itself
		(https://github.com/dipetkov/eems/). There are four main
		motivations for offering this to 'R' users as a package.
		Firstly, to remove the installation and configuration burden
		for the 'EEMS' command-line tool, which relies on manually
		installed 'Boost' and 'Eigen' system libraries and configuring
		their location; secondly, to streamline the workflow by having
		a singe environment (the 'R' system) for the entire analysis
		rather than a file-based command-line executable whose output
		files are then to be imported and analysed by a separate 'R'
		script; thirdly, to make the input formats compatible with
		other, 'R'-based spatial population genetics tools such as the
		'ConStruct' package; and lastly, to allow for easily running
		several chains in parallel and combining them for plotting and
		further analysis. The package also adds more intuitive,
		streamlined tooling around creating more complex habitats. The
		method of estimating effective migration surfaces was first
		described by Petkova, D., Novembre, J.  Stephens, M. (2016)
		doi:10.1038/ng.3464.
	</longdescription>
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