v0.2.2

FluvialGeomorph v0.2.2 (Release date: 2024-05-26)

Major Changes

• Added the report Report - L1 b that displays cross sections plots disaggregated by extent.
• Added the report XS Compare Plot, L1 that plots XS points for a specified extent of the cross section.
• Added the tool 14a - XS Points Classify that classifies XS station points as falling within floodplain and channel polygons.
• Recommended a Level 1 workflow adjustment to use the detrend raster to make a rough estimate of the channel and floodplain at the end of L1, rather than wait until L2 for a more informed estimate. Use tool 08 - Water Surface Extent to create new polygon feature classes channel_xxx and floodplain_xxx (where xxx represents the detrended elevation) to capturet these L1 rough estimates. These will be revised further in L2 with better estimates.
• Added the data management Join From CSV tool to workaround the inability to reliably write results into ESRI geodatabases.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the 15b - XS Dimensions, Level 2 tool that was causing slope and sinuosity values for the last cross section to calculate null values.
• Fixed tool 12 - XS Watershed Area.
• Updated tools 15a, 15b, 15c to use only sf functions from fluvgeo.
• Updated tool in the Check toolset.
• Removed all remaining sp and rgdal dependencies.
• Removed all use of the arcgisbinding::arc.write function as it has proven over the past 2 years to be too fragile to risk any further production use. No reliable write methods remain for the file geodatabase format from R. Therefore, all R data frame output is now written to .csv files for later import into file geodatabase format. Adoption of this strategy mitigates any further disruption to this project from ESRI's lack of support for ensuring a robust arcgisbinding::arc.write function.