NEWS

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sharpshootR 2.5 (2026-05-04)

• CRAN release
• now depends on R >= 4.1.0
• bug fix in PCP_plot(), filter incomplete water years from exemplar selection
• bug fix in CDEC_StationInfo()
• bug fix in vizSurfaceShape(), no return value
• better handling of ties in hydOrder() and viz*() functions which depend on this value when there are ties in geomorphic position proportions (#63)
• new function vizGeomorphons() for geomorphon summaries returned by soilDB::fetchOSD()
• geomorphic viz* function updates:
  • thinner line width on stacked barcharts
  • new default colors, inspired by PNWColors package
  • new arguments to adjust styling
  • new argument cluster for toggling ordering and dendrogram from divisive hierarchical clustering of proportions
• plotGeomorphCrossSection() updates:
  • new default colors
  • support for: 'geomcomp', 'flats', 'terraces', 'shape_across', 'shape_down', 'geomorphons'

sharpshootR 2.4 (2025-09-26)

• CRAN release
• fixed bug in formatPLSS(), affecting township and range values >99
• rebuilt example data table5.2, now without NA in the adjacency matrix (igraph compatibility)
• rebuilt example data OSDexamples

sharpshootR 2.3.3 (2025-04-17)

• breaking change: plotProfileDendrogram() moved to aqp
• breaking change: aggregateColorPlot() moved to aqp
• breaking change: removed deprecated functions geomPosMountainProbability(), geomPosHillProbability(), surfaceShapeProbability(), hillslopeProbability()
• plotSoilRelationGraph() no longer uses set.seed(1010101) for deterministic output
  • be sure it set a seed just before calling for reproducible output
• update SPC fields from data derived from NASIS (via examples and soilDB data)
• CRAN release

sharpshootR 2.3.2 (2024-10-22)

• rebuild OSDexamples with modern SoilProfileCollection object
• CRAN release

sharpshootR 2.3.1 (2024-05-29)

• moving vegan to SUGGESTS
• CRAN release

sharpshootR 2.3 (2024-04-08)

• CRAN release
• prepare_SSURGO_hydro_data() now returns more soil property data
• major updates to monthlyWB():
  • mass balance check, reporting, and messages when not closed
  • new arguments which enable / modify the distribution of PPT and PET within k-bins / month
• bug fix in plotWB()
• minor updates to prepare_SSURGO_hydro_data()

sharpshootR 2.2 (2023-08-24)

• CRAN release
• added a few more soil hydraulic properties to prepare_SSURGO_hydro_data()
• plotGeomorphCrossSection() now respects aqp::plotSPC() arguments via options(.aqp.plotSPC.args = list(...))
• removing some hard-coded arguments passed through to aqp::plotSPC()
• SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() gains argument to adjust taxon label font

sharpshootR 2.1 (2023-03-22)

• CRAN release
• all functions depending on sp classes or methods have been converted to sf
• water balance helper functions converted from sp/rgeos to sf
• breaking changes in plotTransect(), coordinate are now provided as an additional argument / sf object
• breaking changes in LL2PLSS(), all return data now packed into sf object vs. list (sharpshootR <= 1.12)
• generateLineHash() now uses sf class LINESTRING features
• huePositionPlot() gains origin argument for calculation of dE00 from arbitrary colors specified in CIELAB or Munsell
• huePositionPlot() now passes arguments to contour() via ...
• breaking changes in joinAdjacency(), now expects a data.frame (or compatible) vs. SpatialLinesDataFrame
• polygonAdjacency() now compatible with sf objects
• sampleRasterStackByMU() ignores color table and any categories from source file to ensure raw values are extracted (fixes parity with prior {raster}-based behavior) for categorical data

sharpshootR 1.12 (2022-12-09)

• CRAN release
• adding SoilTaxonomy package to suggests, to allow for better encoding of taxa levels by SoilTaxonomyDendrogram()
• SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() gains argument KST.order to adjust encoding / ordering criteria and level argument to specify the taxonomic levels to use
• SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() gains argument cluster.method to select "divisive" (default) or "agglomerative" clustering methods. Additional arguments to cluster::diana() and cluster::agnes() may be specified with a list supplied as cluster.args argument
• Spatial/raster sampling functions sampleRasterStackByMU(), samplingStability(), sample.by.poly() and MoranI_By_Raster() now use terra internally
• aspect.plot() now returns the Rayleigh Uniformity statistic and corresponding p-value as an attribute named "uniformity"
• bug fix in monthlyWB_summary() to address warning / Inf when 0 dry days
• plotWB() aesthetic fixes and additional arguments, including manual specification of y-axis limits
• aggregateColorPlot() gets a new argument for setting label orientation
• geomorphic viz* functions now use an iterative approach to re-arrange dendrogram according to "hydologic ordering"
• hydrologic ordering functions now exported: hydOrder() and iterateHydOrder()
• new function plotGeomorphCrossSection() presents a SoilProfileCollection aligned to a geomorphic summary as cross-section
• new function reconcileOSDGeomorp() convenience function for reconciling SPC and geomorphic summary tables as returned by soilDB::fetchOSD()
• plotProfileDendrogram() gains argument for re-ordering dendrogram as close to original profile IDs as possible
• dueling.dendrograms() has been deprecated, please use dendextend::tanglegram() for similar tasks

sharpshootR 1.9.1

• bugfix in plotWB() related to figure y-scale range
• plotWB_lines() gets legend.cex and aesthetic adjustments to legend position

sharpshootR 1.9 (2022-01-04)

• CRAN release
• water balance functions now depend on hydromad >= 0.9-27
• new function vizSurfaceShape()
• all viz functions return clustering object

sharpshootR 1.8.3

• SoilTaxonomyDendrogram() no longer resetting par as it prevents further annotation of the resulting figure
• bug fix in CDEC_StationInfo related to parsing station comments
• vizHillslopePosition() now returns clustering object

sharpshootR 1.8.2 (2021-09-07)

• hydromad issue #188 closed, latest binaries include fix in bucket.c
• colorMixtureVenn() now using method = 'exact'
• safer examples for CRAN/Solaris checks
• new example data for testing "OSDexamples"
• vizAnnualClimte, vizHillslopePosition, and related will now work with a single soil series

sharpshootR 1.8.1 (2021-05-04)

• using local (modified) copy of leaky-bucket until resolved:
  • https://github.com/ncss-tech/sharpshootR/issues/40
  • https://github.com/josephguillaume/hydromad/issues/188
• bugfixes in plotWB()
• new function plotWB_lines() c/o J.M. Skovlin
• monthlyWB now includes AWC used to init model as an attribute in return value
• prepare_SSURGO_hydro_data() now returns drainage class

sharpshootR 1.8 (2021-04-24)

• added simpleWB, dailyWB, and dailyWB_SSURGO