the model predictions came from the “predictions” slot produced by <code>ranger()</code>. Such predictions are produced from the out-of-bag data during model training, and are different and lead to lower R squared values than those produced with predict(). Now the predictions yielded by rf() are generated with predict(), and therefore you might notice that now models fitted with spatialRF functions perform better than before, because they do.</p>
<p>The function <code><a href="../reference/print_evaluat