version 1.6-15

new

• droplevels for SpatRaster. #757 by Rodolfo Jaffe.
• normalize.longitude for SpatVector.
• scoff to get and scoff<- to set the scale (gain) and offset of a SpatRaster.

enhancements

• new argument raw=FALSE to extract<SpatRaster> #776 by Thomas Roh.
• as.data.frame now takes na.rm=NA to only remove rows that are NA for all layers. The default value changed from TRUE to NA. #792 by Ed Carnell
• faster plotting of SpatVector data #774 by Krzysztof Dyba
• distance<SpatRaster> has new arguments “target” and “exclude”. #560 by Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr
• new argument sparse=FALSE for `relate<SpatVector,SpatVector>.
• new argument usenames=FALSE for lapp<SpatRasterDataset> #793 by Colin Brust.
• vect<character> now reports that a file is non-existent #784 by John Baums
• faster relate #716 by Krzysztof Dyba
• focal3D now checks if all the window’s dimensions are odd #772 by Neander Marcel Heming

bug fixes

• all.equal bug #756 fixed by John Baums
• extract<“SpatRaster”,“sf”> ignored the ID argument. #755 by Dainius Masiliūnas.
• There is now (in all cases) a check to avoid overwriting (one of) the input file(s) when writing a raster file #760 by John Baums
• vrt is no longer constrained by the maximum number of files that can be opened #780 by 8Ginette8
  
• weighted.mean crashed with numeric weights and na.rm=TRUE #777 by David Holstius
• project<SpatRaster> did not consider an extent that was set by the user #775 by Philippe Massicotte
• focalCor failed for large rasters #607 by John Clark
• focal with expand=TRUE was prone to run out of memory #610 by Nathan Elliott
• crop<SpatVector> did not work well when the second argument were points or lines #782 by Márcia Barbosa

version 1.6-7

Released on 2022-08-07

new

• method blocks to guide reading raster data in chunks. #748 by John Baums

enhancements

• A warning is given when writing raster values that are outside the limits of the requested datatype #752 by Jim Shady
• Arguments to extract were simplified. #736 by François Rousseu

bug fixes

• values of focal where not correct if the input SpatRaster had multiple layers and a “custom” function. #727 by Jean-Luc Dupouey.
• plot<SpatRaster> did not honor argument legend=FALSE. #738 by Grzegorz Sapijaszko
• expanse failed when processing in chunks #741 by Gareth Davies
• crop<SpatRaster,SpatExtent> with argument snap="out" could lead to a crash if the extent was beyond the SpatRaster. #740 by Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

version 1.6-3

Released on 2022-07-25

bug fixes

• subst no longer uses values that it changed earlier on. #639 by Paul Smith
• as.points<SpatRaster> could return wrong factor labels. #640 by Attilio Benini
• mask<SpatRaster,SpatVector> crashed when the results were written to disk. #646 by Monika Anna Tomaszewska
• extract<SpatRaster,SpatVector(points)>(xy=TRUE) returned the locations of the points, not the xy-coordinates of the cells. #650 by Ward Fonteyn
• wrap<SpatRaster> did not return the correct labels for some categorical rasters. #652 by Jakub Nowosad
• better support for non-latin characters in the legend #658 by Krzysztof Dyba
• holes in small lon/lat polygons are now properly buffered #689 by David Hofmann

enhancements

• subst can now substitute the values from multiple input layers with a single output value (layer)
• subset<SpatVector> now behaves like subset<data.frame> #648 by Andrew Gene Brown
• setting category labels with a vector of names is now deprecated. A data.frame with at least two columns should be used. The first column should have the cell values (IDs).
• It is now possible to “drop” a layer from a SpatRaster by setting it to NULL #664 by Daniel Valentins
• freq now provides the labels of factors, even if bylayer=FALSE. It now always returns a data.frame (it used to return a matrix in some cases. #687 by Rodolfo Jaffé
• disagg and aggregate now return a warning instead of an error when using a (dis)aggregation factor of 1.#684 by Justin Fain.
• project crashed when erroneously projecting raster data from one celestial body to another #688 by Mike Sumner
• you can now set a color table with a two column (value, ID) data.frame
• categorical rasters can now be updated more easily #667 by Alex Ilich
• more control over matching values with colors when using plot. 673 by Jakub Nowosad.
• SpatVector attributes can now also be a factor, date, or POSIXct. 697 by Grant Williamson
• improved handling of missing values in extract(method="bilinear"). 693 by swooping-magpie

new

• argument as.raster to unique<SpatRaster> to create a categorical raster with the unique combinations in the layers of the input raster. The default for argument na.rm was changed to FALSE
• sort<SpatRaster> to sort cell values across layers.
• has.colors and has.RGB for SpatRaster
• cover can now combine categorical rasters
• concats to combine the levels of two SpatRaster into new categories 663 by Alex Ilich
• zonal<SpatVector,SpatVector> method to aggregate SpatVector attributes by polygons

version 1.5-34

Released on 2022-06-09

bug fixes

• “flipped” rasters were not always handled well. #546 by Dan Baston
• better reading of GTiff with subdatsets. #601 by Kyle Doherty
• better handling of multi-layer categorical rasters and extract. #580 by André M. Bellvé
• weighted.mean did not adjust the weights if there were NAs in the values. #574 by Lars Dalby
• bug in masking. #552 reported by Márcia Barbosa and 565 by Jakub Nowosad.
• fixed stretch option in plotRGB #550 by Agustin Lobo
• unwrap of a SpatRaster failed with a crs including a “’”. #602 by Jean Romain.
• spatSample with cells=TRUE failed for planar data #544 by Benjamin Misiuk
• compareGeom(x, y, stopOnError=FALSE) did not remove the error messages stored in x leading to unexpected warnings later on. #568 by David Hofmann.

enhancements

• Using & or | with SpatRasters now returns a boolean SpatRaster. #594 by Dan Baston
• SpatVector now supports logical values. #593 by Derek Friend
• Attempt to create SpatRaster with an invalid number of rows now gives an error. #544 by Dan Baston
• layerCor does not create temp files anymore. #551 by Christine Anderson
• not using the same iterator symbols in nested loops to avoid warnings on the Intel compiler. #573 by Gareth Davies.

new

• new arguments res and origin to project<SpatRaster> method. #596 by Alex Ilich
• new argument inside=TRUE to centroids to get a centroid-like point that is guaranteed to be on the geometry (“point on surface”). #588 by Márcia Barbosa
• new argument keepgeom=FALSE to vect<data.frame> that allows setting (keeping) the geometry as an attribute. #586 by Márcia Barbosa
• saveRDS and serialize methods for SpatRaster and SpatVector. #549 by Andrei Mîrț
• xFromCol and yFromCol now have a <SpatRaster,missing> method. #583 by Michael Sumner.
• svc<sf> method to deal with GeometryCollection types. #585 by Sarah Endicott
• as.points<SpatRaster> and as.polygons<SpatRaster> have a new argument na.all=FALSE that affects the interpretation of na.rm. #548 by Jean-Luc Dupouey.
• setGDALconfig and getGDALconfig to set GDAL configuration options. #608 by Erik Bolch.
• new argument circular to rapp to allow the start to be after the end (for if layers represent days of the year)
• new method costDistance<SpatRaster>
• new methods where.min and where.max for SpatRaster to get the cell numbers for the extreme values in a SpatRaster.
• new method emptyGeoms<SpatVector> to get the indices of empty (null) geometries
• new method rasterizeGeom to rasterize the geometry count or the area of (small) polygons or the length of lines.
• new method not.na for SpatRaster which is a shortcut for !is.na(x).
• as.list implemented for <SpatRasterDataset>.
• sources implemented for <SpatRasterDataset>, <SpatVector> and <SpatVectorProxy> #638 by Andrew Gene Brown

name changes

• delauny -> delaunay #627 by Derek Friend

version 1.5-21

Released on 2022-02-17

• writeVector and vect now work with GPGK if the path has non-ascii characters #518
• The results of predict with cores > 1 and more than one output variable were garbled
• zonal dropped category names when using an external (R) function #527 by Jakub Nowosad
• focal/focalCpp showed strange patterns when the window size was larger than the block size #519 by Alex Ilich
• using xy=TRUE in as.data.frame normalized the names #538 by Kodi Arfer
• new argument options to vrt #629 by Monika Tomaszewska.

enhancements

• makeTiles has new arguments extend and na.rm #520 by by L. Dalby
• project<SpatRaster> now uses nearest neighbor as default method for RGB rasters
• new argument na.rm=TRUE to unique. #561 by Matthieu Stigler

version 1.5-17

Released on 2022-01-30

bug fixes

• app<SpatRasterDataset> ignored the filename. #498 by jszhao
• vect<data.frame> failed silently if xy coordinates were integers #496 by Márcia Barbosa
• The output of aggregate<SpatRaster> was malformed when nrow(x) %% fact != 0. #492 by Jean-François Bourdon
• Integer NAs in SpatVector attributes where only recognized on Windows #491 by Márcia Barbosa
• plot<SpatVector> failed when using a character variable with many unique values. #489 by Márcia Barbosa
• rotate failed on large files. Reported by Ujjawal Singh
• writing raster files with a color table could lead to a crash #501 by Kodi Arfer
• crds replicated the coordinates #504 by Murray Efford
• as.data.frame<SpatRaster> returned integers if the file stored values as integers, even if there was a scale/offset that creates decimal numbers #509 by Kodi Arfer
• project opened the input raster file in read/write mode intead of read mode. That did not work with files that cannot be updated.

enhancements

• distance, gridDistance, direction and patches now process all layers of the input SpatRaster. #503 by Chris Haak
• consistent copy-on-modify behavior in ()<- methods. in-place updating available with set. methods such as set.names and set.values. #493 by Jean Romain and 511 by Bryan Fuentes
• much faster writing of GPGK vector data by using a single transaction (following sf) #460 by Krzysztof Dyba
• aggregate<SpatRaster> now accepts functions that return more than one value per aggregated cell
• writeVector has new argument insert to add a layer to an existing file (e.g. GPKG).

new

• new option method="weights" for spatSample<SpatRaster>
• new mask<SpatVector,SpatVector> method to select intersecting geometries
• new method is.related
• values<SpatRaster> has new option na.rm=TRUE. #490 by Henk Harmsen
• new class SpatVectorProxy to provide access to large vector databases that cannot or should not be read into memory in its entirety.
• new argument proxy=FALSE to vect to create a SpatVectorProxy object
• new method query<SpatVectorProxy> to extract parts of a SpatVectorProxy
• new method vector_layers that returns, and can delete, vector format layers from a database/file such as GPKG

name changes

To avoid name clashes with tidyverse

• arrow -> north
• src -> sprc
• simplify -> simplifyGeom

For consistency

• setCats -> set.cats

version 1.5-12

Released on 2022-01-13

bug fixes

• setValues and init failed (or even crashed R) when using a single value on a largish raster. #414
• conversion from sfc to SpatVector lost the crs. #415 by Jean-Luc Dupouey
• buffer on a SpatRaster with no values caused a crash #416 by Sebastian Brinkmann
• writeVector now assumes “traditional GIS order” (long/lat) if the CRS specifies lat/long. #333 by Agustin Lobo
• argument main was ignored in density when using a single layer SpatRaster #424 by dvictori
• Summary type math functions such as min and mean, when used with multiple SpatRasters and numbers, ignored additional SpatRasters #426 by Zhuonan Wang
• names are now conserved when creating a SpatRaster from a RasterStack that points to file(s) #430 by Dan Baston
• classify with right=FALSE ignored include.lowest=TRUE #442 by Alex Ilich
• patches now combines patches that connect across the data line #366 by Hirscht
• patches(directions=8) now connects in NE/SW direction #451 by Jean-François Bourdon.
• centroids now considers cases where SpatVector parts are nearest to each other when crossing the date line in stead of the zero-meridian #366 by Hirscht
• terrain created empty (NA) rows between chunks used for processing large rasters. #453 by Robert Ritson.
• inset did not draw the “box” correctly. #457 by Márcia Barbosa
• as.lines now works with a points SpatVector #464 by Márcia Barbosa

enhancements

• values(x)<- now accepts (hex coded) colors as values
• focal now wraps around the dateline like raster::focal #242 by Alexander Marbler
• aggregate now does not show a progress bar in all cases #249 by Lachlan
• as.data.frame<SpatRaster> or <SpatVector> are now also implemented as S3 methods to assure correct dispatch by other S3 methods such as data.table::as.data.table. See #284 by Patrick Schratz
• crs now shows the correct authority if it is not EPSG. #419 by Matthew Williamson
• It now possible to add a SpatRaster to an empty SpatRaster (with no values), even if it has a different geometry, ignoring the empty SpatRaster #421 by Alex Ilich.
• rast<filename> has a new argument lyrs to subset the layers and open the file in one step.
• rast<array> now has a crs and extent argument. #439 by RS-eco
• type="xyz" is now default in rast<data.frame>. #438 by RS-eco
• classify has a new argument brackets to show if a side of an interval is open or closed.
• further support for categorical data in freq and as.data.frame. #441 ngould7
• speed up in processing of multi-layer in memory data. #437 by Krzysztof Dyba
• vect<matrix> and vect<data.frame> are now much faster. #413 by BastienFR
  
• extract with points provided as a matrix or cell numbers is not much faster. #341
• focal has a new argument na.policy that can be set to one of “all” (default), “only” or “omit”. argument na.only has been removed, as you can now use na.policy="only"
• inset argument border changed to perimeter to allow passing border on to plot<Spat*>. #456 by Márcia Barbosa
• The compile-time and run-time versions of GEOS are now compared and a warning is given if they are not the same. #459 by Edzer Pebesma
• it is now possible to add sub-datasets to GPKG and GTiff files. #300 by gtitov
• general option memfrac can now be set to zero (in stead of not lower than 0.1). #476 by Matt Strimas-Mackey
• new argument allowGaps in patches to disallow gaps between patch IDs. See #478 by Dunbar Carpenter.

new

• timestamps and units are now saved to an auxiliary file (filename.aux.json) for all raster formats except NetCDF when using writeCDF (because in that case they are stored in the netcdf file)
• new method mergeTime to combine multiple rasters, perhaps partly overlapping in time, into a single time series
• new method fillTime that can add empty layers in between existing layers to assure that the time step between layers is constant
• new method approximate to fill in missing values by cell across layers
• new methods is.bool and as.bool for SpatRaster and explicit recognition of Boolean raster data in various places (e.g., extract, plot)
• new methods is.int and as.int for SpatRaster.
• when assigning integer values to a SpatRaster, or when reading an integer file, the corresponding layers are now classified as being of integer type #446 by L. Dalby
• new method layerCor (like raster::layerStats). #420 by Alex Ilich
• new method focalCor (like raster::corLocal). #427 by Zhuonan Wang
• new method all.equal for SpatRaster. See #428 by Dongdong Kong
• new method math for SpatRaster that implements the Math-generic methods and accepts a filename
• new method sds<array>
• new method rasterize<matrix>, see #413 by BastienFR
  
• new method colorize to transform color representations
  
• new method arrow to draw a (North) arrow on a map. #461 by Márcia Barbosa
• new method densify to insert nodes between existing nodes of a line or polygon SpatVector
• new method direction for SpatRaster. #462 by Márcia Barbosa
• new method focal3D to compute focal values for a three-dimensional (row, column, layer) window
• new function makeVRT to create a vrt file for a file that needs a header to be read.
• new option method="stratified" for spatSample<SpatRaster>. #470 by Michael Mahoney
• new general option memmax to cap the amount of RAM that terra can be used in raster processing #476 by Matt Strimas-Mackey
• new method gridDistance to compute distances traversing a raster, perhaps with obstacles. #477 by Márcia Barbosa

version 1.4-22

Released on 2021-11-24

changes

• focal now has ellipses (...) to allow for providing additional arguments to fun. For this reason it does not have a na.rm argument anymore as that can be supplied via the ellipses. In practice this means that the default will be na.rm=FALSE for the standard functions such as mean and sum.

bug fixes

• app grossly overestimated RAM needed, slowing it down. Reported by Jerry Nelson
• terra now installs, again, with older versions of GEOS [#406] by fparyani
• terra did not install with Clang on CRAN/OSX due to using C++13 idiom.

enhancements

• lapp and tapp now have a cores argument (as do app and predict). Suggested by Dongdong Kong [#365]
• focal now also works with a function that returns multiple values. See [#318] by Alex Ilich.
• focal can now process multiple layers in one step.
• expanded support for conversion from stars objects [#220] by Jakub Nowosad

new

• focalCpp takes a C++ function that iterates over cells to speed up computation by avoiding apply (see [#318] by Alex Ilich).
• focalReg for focal OLS regression models between layers

version 1.4-20

Released on 2021-11-16

bug fixes

• terra did not install with versions of GDAL below 3 [#402] by Alex Ilich.
• distance between two SpatVectors or matrices with pairwise=FALSE returned a matrix that was filled by column instead of by row [#403] by Paul Smith

version 1.4-19

Released on 2021-11-15

bug fixes

• rast with some NetCDF files failed because of bad parsing of dates. [#361] by Juan Carlos Zamora-Pereira
• distance<SpatRaster> with lon/lat data was not correct. [#368] by Greg Schmidt
• as.polygons<SpatRaster> failed with a SpatRaster and a categorical layer that is not the first layer. [#370] by Patrick Schratz
• The filename argument in rasterize was not ignored, also causing errors when writing to temporary files. [#377] by Robbie Price
• rast<character> crashed if the sds was an empty character string. [#381] by Dan Baston
• plot<SpatVector> now responds to the range argument [#385] by Márcia Barbosa
• zonal failed for user-defined functions. [#393] by mqueinnec

new

• new method selectHighest to select n cell values with the highest or lowest values.
• new method vect<list> to append SpatVectors (faster than do.call(rbind, x))
• new argument align=FALSE to project to align to the template SpatRaster but ignore the resolution
• new method gdalCache to set the GDAL cache size, contributed by Dan Baston [#387]
• new method fileBlocksize
• new argument options to writeVector to pass layer creation options to GDAL
• new SpatVector topology methods mergeLines, snap, makeNodes, removeDupNodes, gaps, simplify
• new SpatVector characterization methods width and clearance

enhancements

• terra now installs with older versions of GEOS [#363]
• terra now installs on CentOS 7 with GDAL 2.1.4 and a C++ compiler that does not support std::regexp. [#384] by Ariel Paulson

version 1.4-11

Released on 2021-10-11

enhancements

• the definition of setValues now has two arguments (x and values), just like raster had; to avoid reverse dependency problems with raster

version 1.4-9

Released on 2021-10-07

name changes

To avoid name conflicts with sp (via raster) disaggregate is now called disagg and bbox,SpatRaster and bbox<SpatVector> have been removed (but could be resurrected in raster or under another name).

enhancements

• project and resample now choose the resampling method based on the first layer, using “near” for categorical data. Thanks to Matthew Lewis [#355]

bug fixes

• hist failed with small samples. Issue #356 by Martin Queinnec

version 1.4-7

Released on 2021-10-05

note

terra no longer depends on raster. To avoid name clashes between these two packages, and to allow replacing methods from rgeos and rgdal in raster, raster now depends on terra instead.

enhancements

• freq has a new argument usenames. See issue [#309] by Bappa Das
• rast<character> has a new argument opts that can be used to pass GDAL open options. See issue [#314]
• rast<SpatRaster> now takes arguments names and vals. See issue [#323] by Dongdong Kong
• crs<- now warns if an unsupported datum is used. See issue [#317]
• spatSample now returns factor values if a SpatRaster layer is.factor except when using as.df=FALSE
• new method origin<- to set the origin of a SpatRaster. See issue [#326] by Jakub Nowosad
• crs has a new argument parse. See [#344]
• plot<SpatRaster,missing> has a new argument reset=FALSE that allows resetting the par()$mar parameters after plotting. See issue [#340] by Derek Friend
• crds has a new argument na.rm. See [#338] by Kodi Arfer
• show(Spat*) now prints the name and EPSG code of a crs if available. See [#317] by Jakub Nowosad

bug fixes

• plotRGB failed if there were NAs. Issue [#308] by Jakub Nowosad
• writeVector crashed R when used with a SpatVector with no geometries. Reported by Timothy White in issue [#319]
• summary<SpatRaster> now returns counts for the classes (instead of a numerical summary of the indices) [#324] by Jakub Nowosad
• tapp with a character index now returns a SpatRaster with the correct names [#345] by Stuart Brown
• rasterize with a character variable now adds the ID column to the categories [#337] by Tate Brasel
• cellSize now masks values in all cases (when requested with mask=TRUE). Issue [#339] by Jean-Luc Dupouey
• buffer<SpatVector> no longer treats lines like polygons [#332] by Márcia Barbosa
• plot now passes the layer index to fun [#310] by Ben Tupper
• the to_id in nearest was sometimes wrong. See [#328] by Shawn Ligocki
• better support for ESRI value attribute tables (VAT). See this SO question
• focal did not reset initial values for NA cells when processing chunks. [#312] by Jeffrey Evans
• focal could run out of memory when using a large window and user-defined function, and was inexact at the chunk boundary [#347]
• zonal with as.raster=TRUE failed for categorical SpatRasters [#348] by Jakub Nowosad

version 1.3-22

Released on 2021-08-20

enhancements

• if time(x) <- d is set with a Date class object, time(x) now returns a Date object instead of a POSIXct object. Issue [#256] by Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
• The UTF-8 encoding of character attributes of a SpatVector is now declared such that they display correctly in R. See issue [#258] by AGeographer. Also implemented for names in both SpatVector and SpatRaster
• rast<data.frame> method to avoid confusion with the matrix and list methods in response to a SO question by Stackbeans
• the extreme values used to represent NA where not as intended (one or two lower) for INT2U and INT4U. Reported by Jean-Luc Dupouey on stackoverflow
• writeCDF now also writes the time dimensions if there is only one time-step. See this SO question
• vect<character> (filename) now has argument layer to select a layer from a multi-layer file / database, and arguments query, extent and filter for reading a subset
• subst can now create multiple output layers See [issue 276] by Agustin Lobo
• classify can now create different multiple output layers See [issue 276] by Agustin Lobo
• Argument alpha of plot<SpatRaster> can now be a SpatRaster. See this SO question by James McCarthy

bug fixes

• The filename and overwrite arguments were ignored in rasterize
• gdal options are now also honored for create-copy drivers [#260]
• buffer for lonlat now works better at the world’s “edges” [#261]
• scale/offset were ignored by project. Reported by Fabian Fischer
• rasterize<SpatRaster,SpatVector> with inverse=TRUE crashed the R session. Issue [#264] by Jean-Luc Dupouey
• The output of merge and mosaic was not correct for large rasters (only the first rows were used). Reported by Zavud Baghirov in [#271]
• as.points,SpatRaster did not remove NA’s correctly and shifted values. Issues [#269] and [#273] by Julian Hagenauer
• rast<matrix> rotated values when using an equal-sided matrix [#274] by Jakub Nowosad
• the number of rows and columns were reversed when using project with a crs argument. [#283] by Timothée Giraud
• In classify, argument right had TRUE and FALSE reversed.
• terrain had edge effects [#303] by Andrew Gene Brown.
• terrain can now compute multiple variables at once [#286] by Žan Kuralt
• wrap<SpatRaster> changed factors into numeric [#302] by Patrick Schratz
• writeVector failed with “FlatGeobuf” (and probably other formats as well) for not using a proper MultiPolygon [#299] by L Dalby
• regular sampling of polygons with spatSample is now much more regular [#289] by Jakub Nowosad

version 1.3-4

Released on 2021-06-20

new

• na.omit<SpatVector> to remove empty geometries and/or attribute records that have an NA
• new method src to create a SpatRasterCollection (a loose collection of tiles).
• merge and mosaic now have methods for a SpatRasterCollection. To avoid the (inefficient) use of do.call. #210 by Matthew Talluto.
• activeCat and activeCat<- to get or set the “active” category if there are multiple categories (raster attributes)
• as.numeric and catalyze to transfer categories to numeric cell values
• summarize methods such as range and mean for (the attributes of) a SpatVector
• new method shade, to compute hill shading

enhancements

• additional arguments (such as na.rm) are now used by rasterize with point geometries. #209 by Jakub Nowosad
• improved handling (and documentation) of gstat models by interpolate. #208 by Jakub Nowosad
• new argument cpkgs to predict to list the packages that need to be exported to the cores if argument cores is larger than one. ?predict now shows different approaches to parallelize predict (based on examples in issue. #178 by by Matthew Coghill.
• freq now returns labels for categorical layers
• adjacent now has a pairs argument. #239 by Kenneth Blake Vernon
• adjacent now also takes a matrix to specify adjacent cells
• mean and other summarize methods now take a filename argument and disallow non-recognized named arguments. #238 by Jessica Nephin
• The raster attribute table of ESRI-GRID integer data, or from an ESRI vat.dbf file is now ignored if it only has the counts of the values. #234 by Jullee
• time attributes are no longer lost when doing raster operations. #246 by Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
• resample (and project) no longer ignore gdal="" write options and use BIGTIFF if necessary (suggested by Ani Ghosh)
• new argument layer in the extract-SpatRaster,SpatVector method to extract values for a single layers specified for each geometry (see this question).

bug fixes

• better handling of paths with non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese) for GeoTiff but still fails for NetCDF. [#233] by Dongdong Kong
• extract with points and cells=TRUE or xy=TRUE gave garbled output
• as.character<SpatRaster> (called by wrap) did not capture the layer names. [#213] by Pascal Title
• focal mirrored the weight matrix, thus affecting the results when using an asymmetrical weight matrix. Reported by Sebastiano Trevisani
• terra::terraOptions now works without attaching the package. [#229] by Karl Dunkle Werner
• app with ncores > 0 and a function that returns multiple layers now works. [#240] by BastienFR.
• autocor (local) can now handle NA values. [#245] by Jakub Nowosad .
• mask with a SpatVector and a large (out of memory) multi-layer SpatRaster only worked for the first layer. Reported by Monika Tomaszewska.

version 1.2-10

Released on 2021-05-13

new

• as.lines method for SpatRaster
• as.polygons method for SpatVector lines
• autocor<numeric> has new methods mean, to compute the local mean, and locmor, for the local Moran’s I
• sharedPaths method for SpatVector (lines and polygons)
• RGB2col method to reduce a three-layer RGB SpatRaster to a single layer SpatRaster with a color-table (with <= 256 colors)
• split methods for SpatVector and SpatRaster

enhancements

• rast<Raster*> now takes the crs from the Raster object, not from the file it may point to. [#200] by Floris Vanderhaeghe
• convhull has a new argument by="" to make convex hulls for sub-sets of a SpatVector.
• faster processing of large in memory rasters. See issue [#206] by Krzysztof Dyba.

bug fixes

• extract with multiple layers could return a data.frame where the values were not in the correct order (by row instead of by column)
• crop works again with sf objects. [#201] by Sebastian Brinkmann
• vect<sf> now also works for lines, and should be faster
• vect<character> crashed R if a file had empty geometries. [#202] by consumere
• extract(points, bilinear=TRUE, cells=TRUE) now works. [#203] by fab4app
• zonal now works for min and max. [#207] Reported by Jakub Nowosad

name changes

To avoid name conflicts with the spatstat package

• area,SpatRaster-method(x, sum=FALSE) -> cellSize(x)
• area,SpatRaster/SpatVector-method(x, sum=TRUE) -> expanse(x)
• convexhull -> convHull
• perimeter -> perim
• tiles -> makeTiles
• coords -> crds

version 1.2-5

Released on 2021-04-30

new

• trim has a new argument value that allows trimming rows and columns with other values than the default NA
• rapp has a new argument clamp that allows clamping start and end values to 1:nlyr(x), avoiding that all values are considered NA
• spatSample<SpatRaster> has new arguments as.points and values. Getting values, cells and coordinates is no longer mutually exclusive. In response to [#191] by Agustin Lobo
• area<SpatRaster> has a new argument mask=FALSE
• classify can now take a single number to request that many cuts
• mosaic and merge now warn and resample if rasters are not aligned
• extract has a new argument exact to get the fraction covered for each cell

bug fixes

• flip(x, direction="vertical") no longer reverses the order of the layers
• extract did not work for horizontal or vertical lines as their extent was considered invalid. Reported by Monika Tomaszewska
• autocor did not handle NA values [#192] by Laurence Hawker
• nearest now works for angular coordinates
• The unit of slope in terrain was not correct (the tangent was returned instead of the slope), [#196] by Sven Alder
• quantile now works for rasters that have cells that are all NA. Reported by Jerry Nelson

name changes

To avoid name conflicts with tidyverse

with deprecation warning:

• separate -> segregate
• expand -> extend
• near -> nearby
• pack -> wrap

without deprecation warning:

• transpose -> trans
• collapse -> tighten
• fill -> fillHoles
• select -> sel

version 1.1-17

Released on 2021-04-14

major changes

• c<SpatVector> now returns a list. rbind is used to append SpatVector objects
• overhaul of handling of factors. rats has been removed, and levels and cats have changed

version 1.1-4

• No news recorded for this version and earlier versions