Data and R Code to Accompany "Fast Range Expansion of the Red Imported Fire Ant in Virginia and Prediction of Future Spread in the United States"

Data set, R code and RMarkdown document that accompanies the publication "Fast Range Expansion of Red Imported Fire Ants in Virginia and Prediction of Future Spread in the United States" by Malone M, Ivanov K, Taylor SV & Schürch R in Ecosphere. The data set only contains our newly acquired data, and some derived data that can be used to save computing time. Shape files for US state boundaries can be downloaded from https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html.