NEWS

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grainscape 0.5.0 (2025-01-15)

Dependency changes

• Require R 4.2 or higher (for native pipe and placeholder)
• Add DiagrammeR, dplyr, webshot2 and withr to Suggests for use with vignettes and tests

Bugfixes

• Fixed documentation issues and 'memory not mapped' segfault errors on R-devel (#73)
• Improved handling of user-added attributes in exported objects (#71)
• Fixed partial match warnings
• Use replacements for deprecated igraph functions

New features & enhancements

• Use native R pipe throughout instead of magrittr pipe
• Improved documentation

grainscape 0.4.4 (2023-04-20)

Dependency changes

• Removed retiring spatial packages rgdal and rgeos (#68)
• Use sf for writing shapefiles.

Bugfixes

• Improved plotting of lattice MPGs (#51)
• Removed unused eucPerimWeight from documentation (#56)
• Improved error messaging for undefined thresholds in GOC() (#57)

New features & enhancements

• None

grainscape 0.4.3 (2020-09-01)

Dependency changes

• none

Bugfixes

• none

New features & enhancements

• added MEE paper citation and updated package DESCRIPTION & README.

grainscape 0.4.2 (2019-12-06)

Dependency changes

• removed unused dependency hunspell from Suggests

Bugfixes

• reduced package tarball size

New features & enhancements

• none

grainscape 0.4.1

Dependency changes

• none

Bugfixes

• fix error on R-devel exposed by change to matrix class
• fixed error in theme_grainscape() example

New features & enhancements

• added package hexsticker

grainscape 0.4.0 (2019-08-09)

Dependency changes

• Requires R >= 3.5
• remove rgeos dependency and deprecate use of sp argument to many functions (#38)

Bugfixes

• numerous bug fixes

New features & enhancements

• reimplement an algorithm to calculate the minimum planar graph using C++; no longer relies on SELES binary and is now cross-platform.
• use updated igraph functions internally
• updated vignette / tutorial (#5)
• renamed functions to remove gs and gsGOC prefixes; old names have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release (#10)
• MPG() can now handle large rasters
• use S4 classes and methods (#3, #19)
• improved plotting using ggplot2 by default (#22, #47)
• new functions export() (#39) and patchFilter() (#40)
• fix typos (#58, @jsta)

Removed features

• removed gsMPGstitch() as it was unreliable

grainscape 0.3.0

• original version from R-forge (http://grainscape.r-forge.r-project.org/)
• uses a SELES binary to calculate the minimum planar graph (Windows only)