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  <dc:title>Iterative Spatial Regrouping of Administrative Units by
Attributive Affinity</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package spatialRegroup version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Evaluates the statistical coherence of existing administrative
    partitions (e.g. inter-municipal groupings, districts) by identifying
    spatial units whose attributive profile is more similar to a neighbouring
    group than to their own. Border units are iteratively reassigned to the
    group they are most affine with, based on Euclidean or Mahalanobis
    distance computed on user-supplied numeric variables, with optional
    per-variable weighting and standardisation. Spatial contiguity is
    enforced throughout: isolated candidates are reintegrated into their
    original group, disconnected fragments are resolved, and empty groups
    are restored. Convergence is monitored via an eta-squared cohesion
    criterion. The resulting partition can be compared to the original
    administrative delineation using multilevel models, providing a
    quantitative measure of boundary inefficiency.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: dplyr, sf, spdep, igraph, rlang</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Nicolas Ausello &lt;nicolasausello@yahoo.fr&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Nicolas Ausello [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-0463&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-05-11</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spatialRegroup</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.spatialRegroup</dc:identifier>
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