NEWS.md

In ursa: Non-Interactive Spatial Tools for Raster Processing and Visualization

2020-02-26

version 3.8.16

• C-level: memcpy is replaced by memmove for overlapped memory areas.

• C-level: fseek is replaced by fseeko64 for positions in large files.

• Added argument retina in functions for plotting. Not supported for tiles.

• Package RColorBrewer is added as suggested for cases when pal attrubute in colorize() is equal to any palette name or category from RColorBrewer.

• Fixed replace function spatial_geometry<- for Spatial (sp) objects.

• The environental variable PROJ_PATH is temporal specified for GDAL utils for their execution, if GDAL is found (optional).

• Coastline is updated to version 2020-01-09T05:30

version 3.8.15

• Fixed behaviour for using in rmarkdown for self-contained documents

• Path to R is taken from R.home("bin")

version 3.8.14

• Fixed appeared “length > 1 in coercion to logical” in examples during CRAN check.

• Packages leaflet, leafem, leafpop are added as suggested for polar web mapping.

• ‘http’ protocol is changed to ‘https’ one for style=polarmap in glance()

• packages htmlwidgets, htmltools are added as suggested for development purpose without any next steps for involvement.

• Added new argument ref to functions band_blank() and ursa_blank() for more flexible blank detection.

• Changed interface to ‘mapnik’ (https instead of http) and ‘mapsurfer’ (Tokenized Openroute service) tile services.

• Improved formatting of numeric labels in legend_colorbar()

• Coastline is updated to version 2019-09-21T05:39.

version 3.8.13

• R function are used for reading of large binary files, if their size overflows ‘long’ capacity.

• Duplicated band names are allowed now for print() of ursa objects.

• Cancelled replacement “ESRI WKT” by “OGC WKT” format of projection file when writting “ESRI Shapefile”.

• Connections (writting and simplified reading) are made public: spatial_write and spatial_read functions.

• File extensions .webp (if webp is installed), .jpg, .jpeg can be specified for attribute fileout for saving image file, produced by display, glance, compose_open. Package webp is added as suggested.

• Coastline is updated to version 2018-12-13 09:34.

version 3.8.12

• Default style for web basemaps is OSM Mapnik tiles insead of OSM static map due to limitations.

• Parsing of metadata from object of package stars (>=0.2).

• Domain changed from “arcticconnect.org” to “arcticconnect.ca” for style=polarmap in glance()

• Coastline is updated to version 2018-11-17 09:50.

version 3.8.11

• Package tools is added as Suggested for MD5 manipulations.

• Selective improvement of compressed raster matrices in c, display. Still far for full support.

• obj[2] <- NULL removes second band of raster object obj.

• Package rgeos is added as Suggested for geometry operations with sp objects.

• Added spatial_intersection, spatial_symdifference, and other functions for operations with geometries of spatial objects.

• Added Author@R field in DESCRIPTION.

• Changed behaviour for opening of visualization for interactive() session. Now, figures are opened outsize of GUI, by default. Use session_pngviewer(FALSE) for restoring of previous behaviour.

version 3.8.10

• Forced UTF-8 encoding for non-shapefiles for “sp” engine

• PNG is removed in embedded Rscript by file.remove() after Sys.which()

• Accepting sf::st_set_geometry(x,NULL) for extracting spatial_data() of sf objects

version 3.8.9

• Version 3.8.8 is removed from CRAN

• Fixed opening ENVI .hdr Labelled Rasters for Read-only file systems

• Fixed ignoring of stdout in system2 for interactive() (appeared on Gui for Windows)

• Added recipe to use visualization in shiny (imageOutput/renderImage)

version 3.8.8

• Initial submission to CRAN

• Coastline is updated to version 2018-06-03 09:34

• Package IRdisplay is added as ‘Suggested’.

• In adopting to CRAN policy and reviews of CRAN members:

  • Reduced time of examples, fixed some features.

  • Changed cache management (after Uwe Ligges code review).

  • In *.Rd files ‘\{dontrun}’ is replaced to ‘\{donttest}’ (after Swetlana Herbrandt review). Packages caTools, ggmap are added as ‘Suggested’ for running of examples.

version 3.8.7

• Support importing of 3-dimensional ‘stars’ arrays

• Improvement of character encoding for attributes of spatial objects

version 3.8.6

• Coastline is updated to version 2018-03-27 09:31

• Corrected graticules and scalebar for ‘+proj=merc’ projection class for non zero latitude of true scale (e.g., ‘+lat_ts=80.8’)

• Package fasterize is suggested. Version of suggested package sf should be >=0.6-1.

version 3.8.5

• Imporing results of sf::gdal_read.

• Increased contrasting in cubehelix for low-colored palettes.

• Fixed cubehelix for colorizing with breakvalue=0

• Corrected band names for opening rasters using GDAL

• Performance improvement for Group Summary (comparisson) of ursaRaster class.

• Coastline is updated 2018-03-07

version 3.8.4

• Added argument coords for function allocate.

• New wrappers and checkers for spatial (vector GIS) objects.

• Some issues for web services are fixed.

• in DESCRIPTION file ‘exportPattern’ is replaced by multiple ‘export’ for ability to use non-public funstions which names don’t start with “.”

• In panel_coastline improved detection of polygons’ coodrinates spreading in result of reprojection

version 3.8-3

• Visualization output is included to R-markdown document and R-Jupyter code without additional controls. Currently, some outputs are not supported (e.g., bookdown::gitbook)

version 3.8-2

• Changed registration of native routines.

• Package knitr is added as suggested.

• In spatial_coordinates(): fixed return value for ‘POINT’ geometry for ‘sf’ engine.

• In glance(): if all attributes are NA, then plot only geometry.

• In band_blank() 1) fixed inaccuracy for values not in memory 2) added argument verbose.

• In cubehelix() canceled auto brightness changing if dark and light are specified

• In read_envi and open_envi added argument cache to use cache for compressed files.

version 3.8-1

• Internal land polygons (coastline) data are replaced from GSHHG to OSM. Function update_coastline is added to update coastline data personally.

• Caching is introduced for downloaded files.

• Changed structure of inst directory by adding sudirectories requisite with neccessary files and optional with secondary files and directories.

• Added family of functions spatial_xxxxxxx to retrieve properties from non-raster spatial objects: simple features (package sf) and Spatial abstract class (package sp).

version 3.7-19

• Argument ‘attr’ is replaced to ‘field’ in internal functions .spatialize and .glance.

• Argument ‘r’ is replaced to ‘rotate’ in public function cubehelix.

• In coersion from “stack” to “brick”: if nodata values are the same, then nodata is assigned.

• in polygonize added choice of “engine” by means applying functions from either sp or sf packages.

version 3.7-18

• Improved consistence beetween ‘dim’ interity in non-public .regrid()

• Supporting categories in exporting to data.frame

• Back to patch of failure with ‘rgdal’ of Unix build machine at r-forge

version 3.7-17

• Correction for bounding around 180 degree longitude

version 3.7-16

• minor improvement to spatial allocation of vector objects with crossing of 180 degree longitude

• allocate(): slightly improvement for regular grid detection

• background for future functionality

version 3.7-15

• added possibility of image annotation; argument ‘label’ in ‘panel_annotation’ can be object of class ‘array’

• fixed divergent coloring for (only) two values in ‘cubehelix()’

• ‘ggmap’, ‘foreign’ are removed from the list of suggested packages; ‘ncdf4’ is added to the list of suggested packages.

version 3.7-14

• fixed export to Raster(Layer|Brick|Stack) with NA nodata

version 3.7-13

• gentle requirements to “chessboard” grid in ‘panel_new()’

• fix layout in ‘compose_design()’ for images like strips

• in suggestion, sf (>= 0.5-0)

version 3.7-12

• Minor changes for geocoded glance()

version 3.7-11

• ‘nominatim’ geocoding for 180-longitute-objects is more correct, but traffic is higher

• alternate geocoding service in the case of base one failure

version 3.7-10

• Adapation glance() for if argument “dsn” is “point” ‘c(lon,lat)’ and “boundary” ‘c(minx,miny,maxx,maxy)’

version 3.7-9

• Vectors without data table - fixed

version 3.7-8

• Bypass for ‘rgdal’ usage diring examples on r-forge UNIX building machine. E.g.: Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, …) : unable to load shared object ‘/home/rforge/lib/R/3.4/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so’: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

version 3.7-7

• Better matching for floating-point coordinates

version 3.7-6

• Minor fixes for categories after resample

• ‘glance()’ is recoded

version 3.7-5

• Adaptation for R-exts’ “5.4 Registering native routines” for R-3.4.0.

version 3.7-4

• Non-ascii for geocoding in ‘glance’

• New function ‘get_earthdata’ for retreiving MODIS mosaics.

• Added package ‘jpeg’ in the category ‘Imported’.

version 3.7-3

• Non-ascii for geocoding in ‘glance’

version 3.7-2

• Introduce geocode to ‘glance’. There is no relation between data and geocoded place.

• Introduce tiles to ‘glance’. Now static maps and tiles for basemap in “+proj=merc”

• Dismiss from dQuote() and sQuote(), which put non-symmetrical quotes in Rgui; GDAL does’t understad it.

• ‘inst/glance’ contains mock-up to create vector/raster file associantion with glance()

• ‘glance’ can work without package ‘sf’; however “package:methods” should be in “search()”

• Rename ‘panel_gridline’ to ‘panel_graticule’.

version 3.7-1

• Public wrapper ‘glance()’ for non-public ‘.glance()’: quick-look of GIS raster and vector data

version 3.6-3

• Documentation for ‘ursaProgressBar’

version 3.6-2

• Added argument “…” to function ‘read_gdal’. Now, if ‘as.ursa(uri)’ or ‘display(uri)’, then additional arguments can be passed to ‘download.file’. For example, if you need ‘mode=“wb”’ or ignore certificate for HTTPS

version 3.6-1

• Added ‘session_pngviewer()’ and ‘session_tempdir()’ to follow CRAN policy. If “Rscript”, then external software is used to open PNG; current directory is used to write files If ‘interactive()’ or “R CMD BATCH”, no external software for PNG; ‘tempdir()’ is used to write files

version 3.5-2

• Initial submission to R-Forge

ursa documentation built on Feb. 26, 2020, 3:01 p.m.