NEWS.md
In chopin: Spatial Parallel Computing by Hierarchical Data Partitioning

0.9

mirai based par_* functions for parallelization
inst/extdata contents were moved to tests/testdata in 0.9.1
CRAN ready: unexported function examples are moved to /tools on GitHub
SoftwareX paper is published; DOI and inst/CITATION is added
Supports H3 and DGGRID gridding functions from 0.9.5
Generic function using all-sf inputs in x and y is supported in par_*() functions

0.8

Bumped version from 0.7.8 to 0.8.0: improving package coverage
README.md: two mermaid plots are pre-generated as png files
Internal clip_*() functions and vect_validate() are removed
par_map_args() is renamed to par_convert_f()
init.R: one-line initialization for bbox class detection (cf. https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/2448)

0.7

.check_package refactoring: no library() call is required
Internal function .check_par_spatraster is added to main par_* functions
Internal preprocessing "dot-functions" -- universally usable functions are plain S3, whereas others that are class-specific were implemented in S4
Added
CITATION.cff
par_*: argument pad_y to enable applying padded extent to x or y (e.g., y in raster-vector overlay and x otherwise)
Updated
README.Rmd: split the combined one into two mermaid figures -> MD rebuilt, removed date of last update
par_*: argument name change from debug to .debug
Dropped
Custom backend for future and mirai; rolling back to future.apply
any_class_args, is_within_ref, par_fallback, check_dist_incorrect
par_grid argument: grids_input_ids
Data: SRTM (TIFF replaces RDS)
Data preprocessing parts are separated into internal functions
Name change
check_subject to .check_vector
reproject_b2r to reproject_to_raster
vect_valid_repair to vect_validate
targets-friendly helper function: par_split_list
Vignette for par_split_list
par_* family naming hierarchy: par_make_* to par_pad_*
Plain gridding (par_make_grid) and clustering (par_make_balanced) functions are internal
Main par_* runners (par_grid, par_hierarchy, par_multirasters) are kept
extract_at is redesigned as a S4 method
All messaging is managed by cli package
Added zzz.R for startup message
summarize_aw gets generic argument names x and y
mirai backend is introduced
Internal functions are not exported
Type check function check_subject is added. This function is internal.
vapply argument FUN.VALUE fixed

0.6

Fixed: grid_target_id in par_grid accepts numeric or character input to filter grids
par_fallback is returning error_message field with actual error messages
collapse package is added to Imports (i.e., rowbind function is used in place of dplyr::bind_rows)
Tests were fixed following refactoring/updating par_* functions
chopin processing functions now support file path input with extents in par_grid
Fixed: Missing argument passing in par_pad_grid with mode = "grid_advanced"
Vignette update: v01
Fixed: align input-output classes in par_merge_grid
Improved: grid_advanced mode supports the maximum of merged unit grids
Added the balanced number mode of splitting input points (par_pad_balanced; thanks to comments of Dr. Michael Fessler)
Added function of the balanced mode for par_grid (par_group_grid)
All internal sapply is changed to vapply
Added a diagram for guiding users' choice for par_* functions for parallelization considering raster/vector data situations
litr R Markdown file is moved to the archive

0.5

par_grid unifies the classes of grid inputs
par_cut_coords: a supplementary function effectively operating with par_def_q for mode = "grid_quantile" in par_pad_grid. X- and Y-coordinates (of centroids for polygon inputs) are split into quantile groups to balance the number of features in each grid; does not account for geometric complexity (i.e., number of vertices)
Padded grid generation in par_pad_grid is done only by terra::buffer
extract_at* functions get max_cells, which is passed to exactextractr::exact_extract for speedup in expense of memory pressure
Added a new vignette on the demonstration of climate/weather data extraction

0.4

surf argument in extract_at*() accepts file paths
Raster cropping is now optional

0.3

Dropped rast_short
Added examples
README.md is replaced by README.Rmd
Documentation is clarified about the second argument in ... in par_* functions