Changes in version 3.11.6 - ongoing… - Added support for ‘zstd’ compression to the previously implemented ‘gzip’ and ‘bzip2’ external utilities. - New argument engine in spatial_write() function for adjusted writting GeoJSON files using functions from sf, yyjsonr (if installed) or geojsonsf (if installed) packages. Changes in version 3.11.5 (2025-12-19) - Package yyjsonr added to ‘Suggested’ to speed up GeoJSON reading/writing instead of functions from geojsonsf package. - Package jsonlite removed from ‘Suggested’ - Argument ... is added to function spatial_write to support options in the case, when other packages are used (e.g., pretty=TRUE for writting GeoJSON by functions from package yyjsonr). - New function category_value() to get index by name from category table or color table. - New function ursa_match() for categoric rasters to create mask using reference values. - Coastline is updated to version 2025-12-19T04:15. Changes in version 3.11.4 (2025-02-20) - Fixing internal handling of raster ignore values. Changes in version 3.11.3 (2025-02-18) - Graphical output (*.png or other graphical formats) after display(), glance() and compose_close() is wrapped by HTML and is opened in default internet browser. options(ursaOutputBrowser=NULL) opens graphical output in default internet browser (for Windows OS only). options(ursaOutputBrowser=FALSE) opens graphical output in default app by file type. - Fixed vertical flipping of spatial visualization, which was occurred if package png is missed. - Coastline is updated to version 2025-02-14T11:51. Changes in version 3.11.2 (2025-01-14) - In colorize() added new value “zero” for choice in argument fun to accentuate importance of low values. - In colorize() default value of argument ramp is changed to FALSE. - In allocate() added new value “sd” for choice in argument fun for outputting variance in cell aggregation. - Minor fixes in internal functions. - Coastline is updated to version 2025-01-13T13:47. Changes in version 3.11.1 (2024-09-26) - In function colorize() default value of argument lazyload is changed from FALSE to TRUE to speed-up rendering large rasters. - Plotting doesn’t affect sessional grid. - Layout matrix can be specified directly (argument layout in compose_design() and superior functions). - Package start-up initializes options(ursaProj4Legacy=TRUE) to keep using PROJ4, primarely, for printing. This initialization is skipped if ursaProj4Legacy option was assigned before package loading. - Package png is added to ‘Suggests’ (from ‘Imports’). - Adding support for compressed ESRI Shapefiles *.shz. Changes in version 3.11 - MAJOR: WKT as well as PROJ4 is used for coordinate reference systems. Changes in version 3.10.4 (2024-01-09) - New function whiteboxing() for manipulation with WhiteboxTools using ursaRaster objects. - Fixed issues update_coastline() for polygons with 180 meridian cutting. - Improved tile URL parsing for external leaflet providers. - Coastline is updated to version 2024-01-09T04:48. Changes in version 3.10.3 (2023-12-20) - Default Mapnik service is replaced to CartoDB service for tiled basemaps. - get_earhthdata() returns “black” image in the case of missed tiles instead of error. - Coastline is updated to version 2023-12-16T04:43. Changes in version 3.10.2 (2023-10-17) - Minor fixes in internal functions. Changes in version 3.10.1 (2023-10-07) - Packages rgdal and jpeg are removed from ‘Imports’. - Package jpeg is added to ‘Suggests’ (from ‘Imports’). - Package sf is removed from ‘Suggests’. - Package sf is added to ‘Imports’ (from ‘Suggests’). - Package gdalraster is added to ‘Suggests’ for experimental purposes with partial raster reading. - Coastline is updated to version 2023-10-06T03:39. Changes in version 3.10 - MAJOR: packages rgdal and rgeos are rejected. Changes in version 3.9.11 (2023-08-25) - Repaired parsing of Nominatim responses. - Package RSQLite is added as suggested for using map tiles from specified directory of SAS Planet cache - In trackline() 1) improved response of by argument, 2) order of type argument is reversed to c("united","conseqwent") - Coastline is updated to version 2023-08-24T03:31. Changes in version 3.9.10 (2023-03-23) - Foreign functions are symbolic instead of character after R-devel BUG FIXES 2023-03-20. - Coastline is updated to version 2023-03-23T05:08. Changes in version 3.9.9 (2022-12-17) - Added quantile_global(), quantile_band() and quantile_local functions based on stats::quantile(). - Speeding up elapsed time for panel_raster() example. - Packages terra and stars added as suggested for development purpose. New function as_stars() creates object of class stars without stars package. Changes in version 3.9.8 (2022-11-16) - Minor changes in ursa.c file for removing warnings during r-devel-linux compilation (-Wstrict-prototypes). - New function sort() for ursaRaster objects for ordering based on band names. - ‘session_grid()’ prioritizes raster rather vector files, with the same names of files. - Coastline is updated to version 2022-11-16T04:45. Changes in version 3.9.7 (2022-09-11) - New function palettize() as a wrapper ursa_colortable(colorize(...)). - New argunent expand in function ursa_crop() for spatial expansion using relative value. - New argument by in function trackline() to split segments by specified field name. - New function spatial_levelsplit() trasforms nested polygons (e.g., polygonized isolines) to intervaled non-overlapped polygons. Changes in version 3.9.6 (2022-03-08) - Package magick is added as suggested and used for color depth decreasing and in SVG whitespace clipping. - Available value "geojsonsf" for argument engine in function spatial_read() allows using package geojsonsf for (fast) reading GeoJSON files. - update_coastline() is now forced not to use s2 spherical geometry package. Fixed polygons merging in update_coastline(). - Coastline is updated to version 2022-03-07T04:39. Changes in version 3.9.5 (2022-01-25) - Test building for development R 4.2.0. - Avoiding in code and examples comparions more than two objects using all.equal(). - Corrected index in value_cr, when number of columns and number in argunents. - New argument zoom in function regrid() simultaneously replaces expand=zoom and mul=1/zoom. - New argument fixed in function compose_desing() forms output layout, which is close to session grid. - New argument verbose in function consistent_grid() for verbose output. - New coersion (yet simplified) from SpatRaster class (package terra). Changes in version 3.9.4 (2021-05-22) - Fixed example of trackline() for non-Windows systems. Changes in version 3.9.3 (2021-05-21) - Test building for R 4.1.0. - New function trackline() to connect sequence of spatial points to line segments. - New return value ursaLegend in function panel_plot() for spatial objects (simple features, spatial abstrac class) instead of ursaColorTable. - New arguments ... in function session_grid() for preliminary passing to regrid(). - New argument connect in function trackline() for creating either solid multi-segment or multiple consequent segments. - Patterned argument vertical in function panel_annnotation() can be numeric (degrees on label inclination). - panel_graticule() puts marginal longitide/latitude captions at the plot edge in the case when panel has no external border for graticule labels and panel grids are not the same. - Coastline is updated to version 2021-05-20T05:37. Changes in version 3.9.2 (2020-12-09) - Argument expand in regrid() now supports length 1 or 2 (or, coerced to length 2). Grid expansion is proportional to the side of square, which area is equal to area inside of boundary box. - Package ragg is added as suggested instead of package Cairo, which is removed from suggested due to poor support font families. - Improved handling for systems with unsupported “cairo” graphic system. Changes in version 3.9.1 (2020-11-11) - Consistence with imported package sp (>=1.4-4) and suggested package sf (>=0.9-6) is in progress with focus to “proj4string” declaration of CRS. - Additional value shape for area argument and additional value pickpoint for geocode argument in function .glance(). - Package geojsonsf (>=2.0.0) is added as suggested for faster sf/GeoJSON import/export. - Package leaflet.providers is added as suggested. - update_coastline(): merging of splitted by meridian 180 polygons is changed. - Coastline is updated to version 2020-11-08T06:14 Changes in version 3.9 - MAJOR: Field $proj4 in ursaGrid objects is renamed to $crs due to activity with PROJ library, but ursa internally still continues operating with PROJ4 strings. Projection (CRS) values can be extracted or replaced by ursa_crs() (or ursa_proj4(), synonym to ursa_crs()) functions. Changes in version 3.8.20 (2020-06-12) - Consistence with imported package sp (>=1.4-0) and suggested package sf (>=0.9-3) is in progress. - New argument engine in function read_gdal() for optional importind data via sf::gdal_read() function. - New argument geometry in spatial_intersecion() for desired output geometry of spatial features intersection (enfine="sf"). - New function consistent_grid() for regrid keeping dimension ratio. - Zero tail of GTiff palettes are cropped for plotting. - In ursaProgressBar() added argument tail with default value FALSE; use TRUE (previous behaviour) if indication is appeared after progress step. - In compose_open added value CairoPNG for agrument device/type for handled by Cairo package, which is added as suggested. - Packagae ggmap is removed from suggested list. Package rmarkdown is added as suggested. Package widgetframe is added as suggested for development purpose. - In allocate() added argument resetGrid with default value FALSE for resetting session grid before raster formation. Changes in version 3.8.19 (2020-03-29) - Minor adjustments for timing of examples. Changes in version 3.8.18 (2020-03-26) - spatial_write(): fixed deprecated (sf >= 0.9-0) argument update->append in suggested sf::sf_write(). - Re-check “don’t test” examples. Changes in version 3.8.17 (2020-03-19) - Fixed for suggested package proj4 (>=1.0.10). - Tested on R-devel (r77878, r77936) and Rtools 4.0 (2020-02-05); no errors. For R-devel (r77936) suggested package raster should be reinstalled. - Added argument title in function print() for objects of class ursaRaster for optional header printing. Changes in version 3.8.16 (2020-02-28) - C-level: memcpy is replaced by memmove for overlapped memory areas. - C-level: fseek is replaced by fseeko/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 attribute 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 Changes in version 3.8.15 - Fixed behaviour for using in rmarkdown for self-contained documents - Path to R is taken from R.home("bin") Changes in 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. Changes in 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 writing “ESRI Shapefile”. - Connections (writing 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. Changes in version 3.8.12 - Default style for web basemaps is OSM Mapnik tiles insead of OSM static map. - 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. Changes in 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. Changes in 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 Changes in 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) Changes in version 3.8.8 (2018-06-06) - 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. Changes in version 3.8.7 - Support importing of 3-dimensional ‘stars’ arrays - Improvement of character encoding for attributes of spatial objects Changes in 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. Changes in 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 Changes in 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 Changes in 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) Changes in 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. Changes in 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 subdirectories 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). Changes in 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. Changes in 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 Changes in version 3.7-17 - Correction for bounding around 180 degree longitude Changes in 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 Changes in 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. Changes in version 3.7-14 - fixed export to Raster(Layer|Brick|Stack) with NA nodata Changes in 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) Changes in version 3.7-12 - Minor changes for geocoded glance() Changes in 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 Changes in version 3.7-10 - Adaptation glance() for condition if argument “dsn” is “point” ‘c(lon,lat)’ and “boundary” ‘c(minx,miny,maxx,maxy)’ Changes in version 3.7-9 - Vectors without data table - fixed Changes in 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 Changes in version 3.7-7 - Better matching for floating-point coordinates Changes in version 3.7-6 - Minor fixes for categories after resample - ‘glance()’ is recoded Changes in version 3.7-5 - Adaptation for R-exts’ “5.4 Registering native routines” for R-3.4.0. Changes in 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’. Changes in version 3.7-3 - Non-ascii for geocoding in ‘glance’ Changes in 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 understand 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’. Changes in version 3.7-1 - Public wrapper ‘glance()’ for non-public ‘.glance()’: quick-look of GIS raster and vector data Changes in version 3.6-3 - Documentation for ‘ursaProgressBar’ Changes in 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 Changes in 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 Changes in version 3.5-2 - Initial submission to R-Forge