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DGVMTools v1.1.0 release (2023-12-15)

The primary purpose of this release is to ditch the dependencies on removed or deprecated functionality from other packages. In particular the dropping of the maps, maptools and mapdata packages and replacing them with rnaturalearth and rnaturalearthdata. There are other bugfixes and changes, see below.

Modernization

  • The maps, maptools and mapdata packages have been replaced with rnaturalearth and rnaturalearthdata (also removing the dependency on rgeos) for building country and continental outlines. The options available for the map.overlay argument are now "world", "countries" or "ne_countries" for full country outlines (all equivalent) or "coastlines" or "ne_coastlines" for coastlines only (both equivalent). Note these packages also have lots of other nice things what you can put on your plots (using sf and ggplot2)
  • In a similar vein, selectGridcells() (and therefore getField()) can now read take sf objects (but no longer maps) objects.
  • SpatRast objects from terra are now handled without conversion to raster.
  • raster and sp are still used in the package but only for exporting objects of those packages. Overall, the functionality of DGVMTools doesn't depend on sp or raster any more, so they can be easily deprecated and removed in future releases.
  • Plotting arguments are more consistent with ggplot2, with linewidth replacing size for geom_line (in accordance with the ggplot2 deprecation)
  • Usage of the deprecated aes_string() function has been removed (behind the scenes only)

Breaking changes

  • The map.overlay argument now takes strings based on rnaturalearth rather than maps (see above).
  • selectGridcels() now takes sf objects instead of maps objects. The rnaturalearth package is a good place to get country outlines to use here, it is a great replacement for maps.
  • The plotSubannual() function now has arguments size and linewidth instead of point.size and line.width respectively.

Other improvements

  • Can now specify lons and lats to function addArea() which is useful for area calculations in sparse grids.

Bugfixes

  • Argument text.multiplier now handled properly in plotSubannual(). Thanks Drew!
  • Bugfix when first.year/last.year is NULL
  • Bugfix in plotSubannual() to use the specified summary function and not always the mean.
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