NEWS

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orange 2026-08-23

Added

• The kentsamples data for testing and demonstration.
• The prop argument to occupancy allowing the calculation of proportional occupancies. Both the "relative" and "global" methods are available.
• The bradypus dataset for testing and demonstration.
• The sc_shape function to calculate points on small circles
• The sc_center function to calculate a small circle based on points on the sphere
• The sc_in function to calculate whether a bunch of points are inside a small circle or not (based on planes, rather than distances, about 10x faster).
• The shull function for the definition of spherical hulls from data, with plotting.
• The shullarea function to calculate the area of spherical hulls.
• The emptymap function for quick demonsrations.

Changed

• The pinna dataset now includes all species from the genus.
• Omitted irrelevant functions from biodome (based on an initial screening).
• Omitted ranges_ prefix from range calculation functions.
• The function cenrad was renamed to radius
• Refactored functions and standardized interface.

Known Missing

• Convex hulls
• plot=TRUE for data.frame methods when a metric is iterated with tax
• mstlength, maxdist with tax entry and either full=TRUE or dm!=NULL, because the tracing of coordates in the original dataset is not yet implemented

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Initialization

• The package was forked from the 'biodome' project (v0.2.0-6) to efficiently focus on geographic range estimation. The corresponding functions were removed from that package.

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