dissmapr 0.2.1

Release notes for dissmapr v0.2.1

🌍 A maturity & standards release for dissmapr

This release brings dissmapr in line with the B-Cubed software development guide, hardens the codebase, and overhauls the documentation — making the full occurrence → dissimilarity → bioregions workflow easier to install, run, and cite. R CMD check now passes cleanly with 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notes.

✨ Highlights

• Runnable quick-start — the README now ships a self-contained, copy-paste example that goes from GBIF occurrence records to a gridded species-richness map.
• Standards-aligned — restructured to follow the B-Cubed guide, with a new Get started vignette and clean b3doc documentation builds.
• Easier to cite — archived on Zenodo with a citable DOI and machine-readable CITATION.cff and codemeta.json metadata.

📚 Documentation

• Rewrote the README around a minimal, reproducible workflow.
• Moved the nine step-by-step tutorials into pkgdown Articles and added a Get started vignette.
• Documented every exported function's arguments, and fixed the example data so all examples run.

🧹 Code quality

• Replaced whole-namespace @import declarations with explicit @importFrom imports.
• Removed all library() / require() calls from package code.
• Dropped the unused optimized_compute_orderwise() duplicate and the leftover hello() template.
• Added a real testthat test for get_occurrence_data().
• Trimmed ~11 MB of unused bundled data (development caches and workspace files).

⚙️ Compatibility

• Now requires R (≥ 4.1.0) — the package uses the native pipe |>.

🧰 The workflow at a glance

Ten core functions span the pipeline — get_occurrence_data(), generate_grid(), assign_mapsheet(), get_enviro_data(), format_df(), compute_orderwise(), rm_correlated(), predict_dissim(), map_bioreg() and map_bioregDiff() — plus the ζ-MSGDM helpers run_ispline_models(), plot_ispline_lines() and plot_ispline_boxplots().

🔜 Roadmap

• Additional ecological distance metrics.
• Further visualization improvements.
• Expanded vignettes and tutorials.

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💬 Questions or bugs? Please use the GitHub issue tracker.

dissmapr is developed within the B-Cubed project (Biodiversity Building Blocks for policy), funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme (grant 101059592).