NEWS.md

In forestdata: Download Forestry Data

Version 0.3.1

New features

• fd_occ_euforest(): new function to access the EU-Forest dataset with more than 500,000 forest tree species occurrences in Europe.

Bugs

• fd_inventory_spain(): returned wrong results with process_level = 1 or process_level = 2 combined with ifn = 4 for regions that contain more than 1 province inside the same province argument. For instance, province = "Canarias" includes 2 provinces (35 and 38), but previously it was treated as one.

Enhancements

• fd_inventory_spain(): some plots have tree data on the field but no coordinates recorded. Before this version, this data was ignored. Now, a row with empty geometry and warning were added.

Version 0.3.0

New features

• fd_forest_glad() and fd_canopy_height(): gain a new argument merge = FALSE. If the tiles are not merged, the function will return the result much faster as a SpatRasterCollection.

• fd_forest_extent_glad(): eliminated. Functionality extended with fd_forest_glad().

• fd_inventory_spain(): gains a new argument process_level, which can be:

  • process_level = 0: raw data is downloaded

  • process_level = 1: data is processed at the tree level

  • process_level = 2: data is processed at the stand level

Enhancements

• Better functions feedback with cli R package

• Make the package lighter eliminating useless internal functions. purrr, rvest, rlang, and crayon dependencies are not needed anymore.

Bugs

• Fix foresdata url issues according to #9 and CRAN policies.

Version 0.2.1

• fd_canopy_height(): fix an error that was provoking the cached rasters to be deleted in the current session.

Version 0.2.0

New features

• fd_allometry_tallo(): new function to retrieve data from the TALLO database (thanks to @i-c-grant in #1).

• fd_pathogens_defid2():

  • It has now quiet argument, which defaults to FALSE.

• metadata_forestdata:

  • List of chorological species updated

  • New list containing metadata of possible options for fd_pathogens_defid2().

  • New list containing metadata of codes for discrete and forest layers in fd_landcover_copernicus().

• fd_landcover_esri(): now includes land cover data for 2023.

• fd_canopy_height(): gains a new argument model with two possible options:

  • model = "eth": default value. It returns the ETH Global Canopy Model with 10 meters of spatial resolution.

  • model = "meta": it returns the Meta Global Canopy Model with 1 meter of spatial resolution. Thanks to @Wycology in #2.

• fd_forest_glad(): new function that deprecates fd_forest_extent_glad(). It includes a new argument model to choose forest extent, forest height, or land cover models from GLAD. It also fixes #7.

Enhancements

• Properly name land cover instead of land use to fd_landcover_copernicus() and fd_landcover_esri() in their documentation.

• fd_forest_eutrees4f(): now gives an error with a better message when distrib == "nat" & period != 2005.

• Improve documentation, fix mistakes in urls to other functions, add unit tests for all functions, correct wrong fd_forest_extent_glad() reference.

• Remove dependency on RODBC, and use DBI and odbc instead in fd_inventory_spain(). Improve error message when data is not available.

• fd_canopy_height(): now crops and then merges multiples tiles, so it's much faster when using crop = TRUE. It acquires argument mask, and losses ... passed to terra::crop() because it fails to mask when used within crop().

• Now every function have the argument quiet = FALSE by default, and retrieves the citation of the dataset.

Bugs

• fd_forest_chorological(): fixes #5. Species Cedrus atlantica and Phoenix theophrasti are eliminated from the metadata since they have no range data. Chamaerops humilis is now well spelled. The function now retrieve an error message when data is not available (fixes #5).

• fd_inventory_spain()

  • It was returning metadata with the same name always. Now it will be different depending on the dataset that we download, and it will be checked if it exists before downloading it (according to #3).

  • Some provinces in IFN4 were incorrectly georreferenced. Now they are correctly georreferenced based on the Documentador. IFN3 provinces are now also georreferenced

• fd_landcover_copernicus() and fd_canopy_height() now crop data regardless of the CRS.

• fd_forest_extent_glad(): incorrectly crops to the argument x (fixes #7).

Version 0.1.0

• Initial release.

forestdata documentation built on June 8, 2025, 12:43 p.m.