Jim Thorson

Yeah, `PBSmapping` does not involve any cross-platform issues for projections, but only does UTM and not CRS. Hence the development path I originally tool. I think its time to revisit...

OK, so the latest numeric release appears to be 1.7.18, and it doesn't seem to have the `rtweedie`. I don't want to force a dependency on a version that isn't...

Nicholas, Thanks for pointing this out! Using the Pacific Islands grid and barrier vs. non-barrier fits that you provided, I can confirm that the previous implementation was a bug, and...

@N-DucharmeBarth-NOAA Do you mind looking at my lastest push for the main branch of VAST to see if it fits your expectations? I added `Range_fraction` as an option to pass...

yeah, logkappa is translated into Range ( = distance with 13% correlations for an isotropic model). If Range is greater than the maximum distance among knots, or less than minimum...

hmm. you mean that you want to reference docs to include upper and lower as arguments in ?fit_model rather than digging through the `...` arguments? I'm not sure I'm following...

its not super-easy to change individual bounds using the high-level interface, without running it twice. If you don't mind running it twice, you can do: ```R fit_orig = fit_model( ...,...

Please try with `fit = fit_model( ..., run_model=FALSE )` instead

Well, you could always try eliminating the lower and upper bounds, by passing a different default value via `fit_model( ..., optimize_args=list("lower"=-Inf,"upper"=Inf))` and see if it is only slightly exceeding bounds...

John, can you help me understand this? I can see in their error message report that it involves `isfinite` and I gather that Kasper has now repaired something about that...