Changelog

elsar 0.1.0

Breaking Changes

• Renamed from_wdpa parameter to from_wdpca in make_protected_areas() to reflect the rename of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) to the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA).

New Features

• Added file naming conventions vignette documenting standardised naming patterns for ELSA pipeline inputs, outputs, and figures.

• Added dark mode toggle to the pkgdown website.

• Added make_urban_greening_zone() to the pkgdown reference index.

• make_protect_zone() now adapts the HII threshold when mean HII inside protected areas is high (>= 4). Uses the PA mean as the threshold instead of the quantile-based approach to avoid excluding nearly all areas in high-HFI countries (#79). hii_input is now optional.

Improvements

• Updated Global Data Processing Reference vignette:
  • Fixed stale and incorrect function names.
  • Added missing datasets (degraded areas, flood abatement, indigenous managed lands).
  • Added “Since” column tracking which version introduced each function.
  • Documented removed/deprecated datasets in a dedicated section.
• Added version tracking column to the dataset reference table.

Internal Changes

• Bumped version to 0.1.0 to reflect API stability.

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elsar 0.0.7

New Features

• Added Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) download functions for multiple data products:

  • download_lulc_data() - unified interface for LULC data
  • download_dynamic_world_data() - Google Dynamic World
  • download_esa_worldcover_data() - ESA WorldCover
  • download_esri_lulc_data() - ESRI Land Cover
  • download_lulc_class_proportion() and download_lulc_proportions() - class proportion calculations

• Added GEE/conda helper functions for improved Google Earth Engine integration:

  • create_gee_conda_env() - automated conda environment setup

  • find_conda_base() and find_env_python() - conda path utilities

  • get_crs_wkt() - CRS WKT string extraction

• Added multi-LULC product support with GEE-side aggregation

• Exported check_and_download_required_layers() for checking and downloading required data layers

Bug Fixes

• Fixed “missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed” error in make_urban_greening_opportunities() when input data contains NA values in filter columns

• Fixed “missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed” error in make_normalised_raster() when checking for empty raster values

• Fixed “[subset] no (valid) layer selected” error in get_binary_layers() when raster stack has zero layers or when subsetting returns empty indices

• Fixed “Python int too large to convert to C long” error on Windows when accessing GEE task status (timestamps exceed 32-bit integer range)

• Fixed GEE multi-tile export bug where only some tiles were downloaded for large areas (e.g., Chile pasturelands). Now waits for all tiles to appear before downloading

• Fixed curve geometry handling in make_ramsar_sites() for improved gpkg support

• Fixed KBA geometry handling issues

• Fixed extent alignment bug in zone functions (make_protect_zone(), make_restore_zone(), make_manage_zone())

• Fixed operator precedence bug in make_threatened_ecosystems_restoration()

• Fixed syntax error in make_restore_zone()

Improvements

• Updated make_protected_areas() for WDPCA schema changes

• Standardized logging and input validation across all functions

• Improved package documentation and README

• Sanitized filenames for saved plots

• Added logging for HII threshold values

• Refactored restore zone creation to allow single version output

Deprecations

• Deprecated elsar_plot_static_raster_c() and elsar_plot_static_raster_d() in favor of unified plotting API

• Deprecated get_iucn_ecosystems() and get_iucn_forests() functions

• Deprecated pa_def parameter in make_protected_areas() - use status_filter instead

Internal Changes

• Removed unused make_elsa_problem.R

• Consolidated utility files (utils-elsa_plotting.R, utils-elsa_posthoc.R, utils-pipeline.R)

• Improved logging function and standardized messaging

• Added lifecycle, future, purrr, rappdirs, and xml2 to Imports