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Source: NEWS.md

DeltaMultipleBenefits 2.0.0 - 2026-06-30

Major release including full support for Phase 2 models of tidal marsh bird species distributions. Several functions have changed substantially, breaking backwards compatibility.

Documentation

  • Supporting Information: Added references for Phase II manuscript (in review) and published data sets
  • Overview: Updated information about the completed status of Phase II
  • Vignette: Updated throughout to reference updated functions and Phase 2 models

Data

  • key: Simplified to full list of recognized land cover classes and subclasses
  • predictors_tima, predictors_riparian, predictors_waterbird_fall, predictors_waterbird_win: added data sets laying out the crosswalk between land cover classes and subclasses in key with predictors expected by each set of SDMs

Functions

  • utils-py.R: Added several Python helper functions to improved how Python is called and avoid importing arcpy and Spatial Analyst extensions repeatedly in the same session
  • reclassify_landcover: Deprecated and replaced with classify_landcover and create_predictor_stack
  • classify_landcover: Added function with methods for handling sf of SpatRaster input data; supports classification of land cover polygon data in alignment with key and classification of SpatRaster data to align with predictors required by each set of SDMs, respectively
  • create_predictor_stack: Added internal function called by python_focal_prep to convert a classified raster into a stack of predictor variables
  • python_focal_finalize: Deprecated and replaced with additional functionality in focal_stats.py
  • python_focal_stats: Added wrapper to python_focal_run() to automatically handle selecting the correct spatial scales and summary statistics for each distribution model; also produces the appropriate predictor names and (experimentally) can mask the output
  • update_covertype: Added support for processing SpatRaster with multiple layers
  • ALL: replaced pathout with dir for specificity; added support for passing additional arguments to terra::writeRaster() where relevant; made writing SpatRasters to disk optional
  • Added basic tests for classify_landcover, create_predictor_stack, and python_focal_prep

DeltaMultipleBenefits 1.1.0 - 2026-05-14

Minor release including many updates and improvements to package documentation, data, and functions. This release also includes partial support for the distribution models developed for tidal marsh bird focal species in Phase 2. Work in progress to test and finalize this support before the next major release.

Documentation

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  • Updated references to relevant publications
  • Added information about Phase II, focused on tidal wetland restoration and tidal marsh birds
  • Added documentation to fit_SDM about the LANDCOVER predictors required to fit SDMs for tidal marsh focal species

Data

  • metrics: Added Nitrogen loading metrics to allow calculating net change between scenarios
  • key: Added tidal wetland vegetation subclasses to support distribution models for tidal marsh bird focal species

Functions

  • Eliminated dependence on magrittr package
  • reclassify_landcover: updated to support additional vegetation subclasses introduced in Phase II, including changes to how land covers are handled for the previous riparian and wetland SDMs; needs double-checking for final changes to tidal marsh SDMs since Nov 2025
  • python_focal_finalize: added support for renaming focal stats as required to fit the tidal marsh SDMs
  • python_focal_prep: updated documentation to indicate support for tidal marsh SDMs when it calls the reclassify_landcover function
  • sum_habitat: Added support for specifying “tima” as a type of SDMs and general support for unrecognized SDMs; Added a more general regex arguments to allow selecting a subset of rasters rather than defaulting to all rasters in the directory
  • sum_landcover: Generalized the “rollup” argument to only require wetland subclasses to start with “WETLAND” rather than “WETLAND_MANAGED”
  • transform_SDM: Added a more general regex argument to allow selecting a subset of rasters rather than defaulting to all rasters in the directory
  • update_covertype: Added support for generating the categorical LANDCOVER predictor as required to fit the tidal marsh SDMs; needs double-checking for final changes to tidal marsh SDMs since Nov 2025

DeltaMultipleBenefits 1.0.0 - 2023-03-10