NEWS

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divraster 1.2.3 (2026-01-11)

New features

• area.calc.flex(): flexible area calculation by categories, zones, and overlays
• occ.avg.dist(): average pairwise great-circle distance between occurrences
• rast.by.polys(): summarise raster values by polygons with custom functions
• bin2crop(): crop continuous rasters by binary footprints

Improvements

• Updated vignette with new function examples
• Test coverage increased to 84%
• Fixed import conflicts (dplyr/terra)
• Requires R >= 4.1.0 (native pipe |>)

divraster 1.2.1 (2025-05-26)

• New functions added: suit.change, area.calc, spat.alpha2, and differ.rast.
• Minor changes in function documentation.
• Minor changes in function tests.
• Minor changes in vignette.

divraster 1.0.4 (2023-10-10)

• New function added for initial testing #3.
• Minor changes in function documentation.
• Minor changes in function tests.
• Citation updated.

divraster 1.0.3 (2023-08-21)

• Improvements in function descriptions.
• Improvements in vignette (examples and description).
• Minor correction in function tests #2.
• Citation file added.

divraster 1.0.2 (2023-06-27)

Released 2023-06-27

• Initial CRAN submission.