NEWS

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link2GI 0.7-3

Changes

• Added a deterministic GDAL CLI context based on linked system binaries (no implicit PATH usage).
• Introduced GDAL capability fingerprinting, help-derived minimal CLI skeletons, and NDJSON run logging to support reproducibility.
• Refactored GDAL discovery and linking to be platform-robust and non-redundant.

Changes

• Unified and hardened platform discovery for GRASS, GDAL, and SAGA with strict OS guards and consistent return structures.
• Stabilized environment setup and binary resolution across platforms.
• Improved test suite and CRAN compliance; removed brittle mocks and fixed edge cases.

link2GI 0.7-2 (2025-12-23)

Changes

• Introduced a new introspection-based OTB API using CLI -help output as the single source of truth.
• Added robust command construction and unified OTB execution logic.
• Harmonized Windows and Linux OTB discovery.
• Preserved the legacy OTB API for backward compatibility.

Testing

• Added testthat coverage for OTB command construction and argument handling.

link2GI 0.7-1

Bug fixes

• Fixed unintended recursion in project setup logic.
• Refactored initProj() to a single, non-recursive execution path.
• Prevented repeated re-initialisation of folders, git, and renv.

Documentation

• Updated documentation to reflect the revised project setup behaviour.

link2GI 0.7-0

Changes

• Added a new introspection-based OTB API (otb_capabilities(), otb_args_spec(), otb_build_cmd()).

Bug fixes

• Fixed OTB path and environment setup (bin/root handling).
• Stabilized CLI help introspection, including non-zero exit codes.
• Improved runOTB() output handling and error propagation.

Documentation

• Updated vignette to use introspected parameters instead of hard-coded argument lists.

link2GI 0.6-2 (2024-10-28)

Bug fixes

• Fixed CRAN issues related to git2r.

link2GI 0.6-1 (2024-06-01)

Bug fixes

• Fixed additional CRAN check issues.

link2GI 0.6-0

Changes

• Deprecated rootDir in favour of root_folder.
• Extended initProj() into a lightweight project setup utility.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #65.

link2GI 0.5-4

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues #61, #62, and #63.

link2GI 0.5-3 (2023-10-30)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues #58 and #59.
• Stabilized rgrass7 dependencies.

link2GI 0.5-2 (2023-01-27)

Changes

• Added support for returning vector data from OTB calls.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #58.
• Minor fixes in runOTB().

link2GI 0.5-1

Changes

• Integrated stars and terra raster objects for GRASS linking.

Bug fixes

• Preliminary fixes for issues #56 and #57.
• Minor internal fixes.

link2GI 0.5-0 (2022-08-29)

Changes

• Switched to a unified linkGRASS() for GRASS 7.x and 8.x.
• Retained linkGRASS7() for backward compatibility.

Bug fixes

• Preliminary fix for issue #56.

link2GI 0.4-7 (2021-09-03)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #52.

link2GI 0.4-6

Bug fixes

• Preliminary fix for issue #52.

link2GI 0.4-5 (2020-12-07)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues #42, #44, #46, #48, and #49.

Documentation

• Added installation vignette.
• Updated documentation.

link2GI 0.4-4

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #42.

link2GI 0.4-3

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #40.

link2GI 0.4-2

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue #38.

link2GI 0.4-1

Changes

• Added linkall().
• Added direct reading and writing of vector data to GRASS SQLite.

Bug fixes

• Several minor fixes.

link2GI 0.4-0 (2019-11-22)

Changes

• Added parsing and return of OTB CLI help for interactive use in R.
• Introduced runOTB() according to issue #29.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues #19, #21, #22, #26, and #29.
• First parsing of the new GRASS (>= 7.8) start file.

link2GI 0.3-7 (2019-09-05)

Changes

• Improved implementation of parseOTB().

Bug fixes

• Several fixes.
• Updated examples and corrected typos.

link2GI 0.3-6

Changes

• Full re-implementation of linkGDAL(), now returning all GDAL installations at a given search path.

Bug fixes

• Multiple fixes for Windows search and linking.
• Updated examples and typos.

link2GI 0.3-5 (2018-10-26)

Changes

• Added manual build function for UNC paths.

Bug fixes

• Removed obsolete search argument for PRZP.
• Multiple fixes for Windows search and linking.
• Documentation improvements.

link2GI 0.3-4 (2018-10-03)

Changes

• Added boolean indicator for required API availability.

Bug fixes

• Fixed quiet option behaviour.
• Fixed search order.
• Resolved GRASS issues with r.in.lidar.
• Multiple Windows-related fixes.
• Added and corrected examples.

link2GI 0.3-3 (2018-09-22)

Changes

• By default, the latest installed version of each API is selected.

Bug fixes

• Fixed OTB basic wrapper on Windows.
• Added new examples.
• Corrected typos.

link2GI 0.3-2 (2018-08-23)

Changes

• ver_select can now directly select by index.
• Added OTB basic wrapper.

Bug fixes

• RSAGA-related fixes.
• Corrected typos.

link2GI 0.3-1

Changes

• Added returnPaths argument to suppress return values.

Bug fixes

• Windows RSAGA-related fixes.

link2GI 0.3-0 (2018-02-11)

Changes

• Major restructuring to align with common R conventions.
• Removed hidden global variables.
• Added Linux support for multi-version selection.
• Homogenized linking functions and OS-agnostic find*() wrappers.
• Added robust environment handling and a global quiet option.

Bug fixes

• Removed trailing backslashes.
• Ensured compatibility with RSAGA and SAGA >= 3.

link2GI 0.2-2

Changes

• Added findGRASS() as a wrapper for searchGRASSW() and searchGRASSX().

link2GI 0.2-1 (2018-02-06)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues #2, #3, and #5.

link2GI 0.2-0 (2018-01-28)

Bug fixes

• Fixed several small bugs.

link2GI 0.1-0 (2017-01-22)

Changes

• Initial CRAN release.