-
fix ambiguities in
CPL_area
andCPL_length
revealed in testing with GDAL 3.10.0 release candidates ; #2466, #2468, #2429 -
improve test on empty geometries, which changed in 1.0-18; #2463
-
gdal_utils()
ogrinfo
has an argumentread_only
which, whenTRUE
(oroptions
includes"-ro"
), opens a datasource in read-only mode (#2460;sf
did this before 1.0-17); by default a datasource is opened in update (read-write) mode (since sf 1.0-17; #2420)
-
support
POLYGON FULL
simple feature geometry, representing the entire Earth surface, as used bys2geometry
; #2441 -
st_sfc()
has an argumentoriented
which, when set toTRUE
, adds an attributeoriented=TRUE
to ansfc
object, indicating that this object should not be reoriented in conversion tos2_geography
(avoiding using the global options2_oriented
);st_as_sfc.bbox()
sets this toTRUE
; #2441 -
fix build failure with GDAL < 3.4.0 #2436
-
st_simplify()
now accepts feature-wise tolerance values whens2
is switched on #2442
-
add
st_transform()
method forbbox
objects; this uses OGRCoordinateTransformation::TransformBounds(), densifying first and antemeridian proof; #2415 -
st_filter.sf()
correctly scopesx
andy
arguments using !! operator; #2416 -
[.sfc
and[<-.sfc
use matrix/array type subsetting forsfc
objects that have adim
attribute -
add
st_exterior_ring()
to extract exterior rings (remove holes); #2406 -
add
text.sf()
,text.sfc()
,points.sf()
,points.sfc()
to annotate base plots at geometry centroids; #2399 -
st_sf()
no longer stripstbl
ortbl_df
class labels; #2378 -
st_layers()
returns an object of classc("sf_layers", "data.frame")
, with a dedicatedprint
method. -
when
dim
is notXYZM
,sf_as_sf.data.frame()
interprets a length 4coords
argument to specify the corners of a rectangular polygon; #2357 -
st_interpolate_aw()
gains anna.rm
argument, for removing features withNA
attributes before interpolating; #830 -
merge.sf()
no longer renames geometry column; #2334
-
st_join()
no longer renames the geometry column; #2327 -
st_sample()
works when unprojected polygon geometry crosses the antemeridian; #2331 -
clean up and modernization of S3 registration of methods and tests; #2285, #2288, #2316, #2341, #2342, by @olivroy
-
[.sfc
works when setting argumentop
; #2320 -
st_sample()
for polygons is sensitive to settingoriented = TRUE
to prevent wrongly correcting ring directions; #2308 -
add support for the GDAL
footprint
utility (requiring GDAL >= 3.8.0) togdal_utils
; #2305, by @goergen95 -
existing environment variables
PROJ_LIB
andPROJ_DATA
are (again) ignored onsf
binary CRAN installations (win + macos), effectively by overwriting them during the R session and restoring them on exit; this does not happen if environment variableR_SF_USE_PROJ_DATA
is set totrue
. #2298 -
add
st_line_project()
to find how far a point is when projected on a line; #2291 -
add
st_line_interpolate()
to obtain a point at a certain distance along a line; #2291
-
add
st_perimeter()
generic to cover both geographic and projected coordinates; #268, #2279, by @JosiahParry -
add
st_sample()
method forbbox
, with special provisions for ellipsoidal coordinates; #2283 -
documentation clean-up by @olivroy; #2266, #2285
-
st_convex_hull()
usess2::s2_convex_hull()
for geodetic coordinates; #2250 -
add
directed
argument tost_line_merge()
; #2264 -
st_union.sfc()
givenx
andy
works consistently across geodetic and projected objects; #2262 -
st_union.sf()
givenx
andy
unions pairwise ifby_feature = TRUE
; #2259 -
st_read()
work around issue with GPKG driver ifwkt_filter
is set; #2248 -
st_read()
uses GDAL's stream reading whenuse_stream = TRUE
; #2238 by @paleolimbot -
st_transform()
responds to in-session changes tosf_proj_network()
; #2166 -
plot.sf()
:key.width
is sensitive to pointsize graphics parameterpar("ps")
; keys with factor levels suggest a proper size if they won't fit. -
plot.sf()
:key.pos
can hold a second value in [0, 1] determining the relative position of the key in the available space -
[<-.sf
fixes theagr
attribute when it is broken; #2211 -
if the env. variable
ADD_SF_NAMESPACE
is set totrue
,sf
objects get a new attribute,.sf_namespace
, which forces loading thesf
namespace when it has not been loaded so far, e.g. for proper printing or plotting of ansf
object; #2212 by Mike Mahoney -
distinct.sf()
is type-safe forsf
objects with zero rows; #2204 -
summarise.sf()
raises an error if.by
is given but noacross()
on the geometry; #2207 -
st_write()
matches fields on name first, than on position; this matters for formats that have pre-defined names, such as GPX; #2202
-
fix
plot.sf()
when using a key for multiple factor variables; #2196, #2195 -
fix use of
as.numeric_version
in a test, for upcoming change in r-devel -
code tidy-ing: fix many lintr suggestions, thanks to Michael Chirico (#2181 - #2191)
-
gdal_utils()
adds"ogrinfo"
utility (requires GDAL >= 3.7.0); #2160 -
st_as_sf()
catches errors when setting invalid crs values, raised by Jon Skøien -
add
rename_with.sf()
method; #1472 -
use GEOS' overlayNG routines for (GEOS) Intersection, Difference, Union and SymDifference; #2143
-
added
duplicated.sf()
; #2138, #2140, thanks to @bart1 -
select.sf()
allows selecting the same column twice under different names; #1886 -
st_as_sf.ppplist()
is deprecated; #1926 -
st_cast()
handles empty geometries; #1961 -
don't repeat longlat messages in
summarise.sf()
; #1519 -
fix random sampling on the sphere; #2133
-
update NAMESPACE to
useDynLib(sf, .registration=TRUE)
; #2127 thanks to @eddelbuettel -
fix call in
gdal_addo()
; #2124 -
fix issues that came up with older GDAL version, use
GDAL_VERSION_NUM
consistently; #2123 #2121 #2119
-
st_make_grid()
also accepts area units forcellsize
, for square and hexagonal grids; #1505 -
add
st_concave_hull()
, for concave hulls, if GEOS >= 3.11.0; #1964 -
add
st_triangulate_constrained()
, for constrained Delaunay triangulation, if GEOS >= 3.10.0; #1964 -
clean up the retrieval of length or angle units from WKT representations; https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2023-March/056994.html
-
conversion to GEOS uses the
GEOS_PREC_VALID_OUTPUT
flag, which makes sure that the "[o]utput is always valid. Collapsed geometry elements (including both polygons and lines) are removed."
-
gdal_utils()
has aconfig_options
argument to set further GDAL options, just likest_write()
; #2003 -
fix slow writing of logical vectors in
st_write()
; #1409; #1689 -
st_drivers()
has an argumentregex
to filter on driver (long) name; #2090 -
drop C++11 as a system requirement
-
c.sfc()
(and, consequently,dplyr::bind_rows()
) gives an error if components have different CRS; #1884 -
data imported from
maps
are associated with the Clark 1866 ellipsoid; #2080 -
fix importing legacy
SpatialPolygon
objects without comments; #2063, #2069, rstudio/leaflet#833 -
st_read()
no longer errors on mixes ofXY
andXYZ
geometries; #2046 #1592 -
in
plot.sf()
, when numericbreaks
are given a legend key is always plotted; #2065 -
st_crs()$axes
returns adata.frame
with axes properties (name, orientation, conversion factor) when GDAL >= 3.0.0 -
clean up unit handling for geometry measures (length, area, distance) and crs;
-
st_crs(x)$ud_unit
returnsNULL
if units are unknown; #2049 -
st_write()
substitutes anNA
crs withENGCRS["Undefined Cartesian SRS with unknown unit"]
; #2049, #2054 -
st_can_transform()
checks whether a transformation between two crs exists; see dieghernan/tidyterra#64; #2049 -
the matrix returned by
st_coordinates()
has no row names, to reduce output size
-
adjust for changes how R-devel handles
POSIXlt
; #2028 -
add
st_break_antimeridian()
; #1983, #1991 by Roger Bivand -
add
Fibonacci
as a spatial sampling type inst_sample()
-
use the global
options("sf_use_s2")
to determine whether to use s2, rather than a value in a local environment; #1977 -
fix utils
mdiminfo
andmdimtranslate
ingdal_utils()
-
extend arguments of
gdal_read_mdim()
needed bystars::read_mdim()
ifstars
>= 0.5-7; addgdal_write_mdim()
-
add
drop_na()
method forsf
objects; #1975
-
st_drop_geometry.default()
returnsx
unmodified; -
sf_project()
accepts 3- or 4-column matrices, containing z and t values; -
optimization for
st_sfc()
by @paleolimbot; #1938, #1925 -
[<-.sfc()
recomputes the bounding box;st_sfc()
gets parametercompute_bbox
; #1965 -
add new algorithm and drop option to
st_make_valid()
when using GEOS and GEOS >= 3.10.1; #1655 -
add
st_minimum_rotated_rectangle()
, available when GEOS >= 3.9.0; #1953 -
fix
st_sample()
withtype = "hexagonal"
for corner case (n=1), add aprogress
argument for a progress bar; #1945 -
add package
pbapply
to Suggests; #1945 -
add pdf driver to windows build; #1942
-
clarify
pipeline
argument inst_transform()
when axis order is ambiguous; #1934 -
handle argument
xpd
in calls toplot.sfc_POLYGON()
andplot.sfc_MULTIPOLYGON()
-
add
pivot_wider()
method, by Henning Teickner; #1915 -
add
gdal_addo()
to add or remove overviews from raster images; #1921 -
st_layers()
returnscrs
of each layer in acrs
list ofcrs
objects -
restore
st_graticule()
behaviour to pre-sf 1.0-0; tidyverse/ggplot2#4571 -
gdal_metadata()
sets metadata item names properly -
st_read()
gains an argumentoptional
passed on toas.data.frame
to avoid changing column names; #1916 -
GPX files are autodetected by
st_read()
; #1917 -
unnecessary coordinate names are not returned in
st_sample()
, making the output size smaller; #1879
-
st_drop_geometry()
is a generic; #1914 -
st_crs(x)$ud_unit
returns the unit of the coordinate reference system ofx
-
geometric predicates return
sgbp
objects omitting self-intersections etc. by passingremove_self = TRUE
and unique symmetric relationship by passingretain_unique = TRUE
(to...
if needed); this simplifies identifying (and removing) duplicated geometries; duplicates are identified by e.g. byst_equals(x, retain_unique = TRUE) |> unlist() |> unique()
; #1893 -
fix compile issue against GDAL < 2.5.0 introduced in 1.0-6; #1899
-
adapt to new
spatstat.random
package; #1892 -
st_geometry<-()
also allows to rename a geometry column in ansf
object; #1890 -
for
sf
objects, thest_as_sfc()
method is an alias forst_geometry()
; #1882 -
st_make_grid()
speeded up; #1579 thanks to Krzysztof Dyba -
remove direct and indirect dependencies on
rgeos
andrgdal
; #1869 -
use
stats::dist
rather than GEOS for symmetric point-point Euclidian distance computation; #1874
-
package startup message reports status of
sf_use_s2()
; #1782 -
sf_use_s2()
usesmessage()
to report a change; #1782 -
st_sample()
using regular sampling for ellipsoidal coordinates "works" as if coordinates were Cartesian; #1837
-
new function
st_delete()
deletes a data source, or layer(s) within a data source; #1828 -
fix memory leak in
WKT1_ESRI
retrieval; #1690
-
cope with how GEOS >= 3.10.0 handles illegal geometries (e.g., non-closed rings); #1807
-
crs
objects have a$srid
method to extract the SRID (as authority "name:code"); #1804 -
st_as_grob()
methods forsfc_*
objects correctly handle empty geometries; #1789 with help from Hiroaki Yutani -
when writing objects with
NA
as CRS to GeoPackage, assign "Unknown Cartesian CRS" first - this is in line with using Cartesian geometry operations for objects withNA
as CRS; #1776 -
add coerce method from
sgbp
tosparseMatrix
; #1750 -
fix
st_cast()
forGEOMETRYCOLLECTIONS
containing empty geometries; #1767 -
fix
st_is_valid()
for bogus polygons and projected coordinates; #1666, #1760; #1761
-
st_read()
andst_write()
using GDAL handle binary attributes (OFTBinary fields) ; #1721 -
a
pivot_longer
method is added forsf
objects (thedata.frame
method works, but raises a warning) -
rbind.sf
preserves primary geometry column; #1717 -
configure
constrains using--static
toDarwin
platform; #1702, #1712, #1713 -
old-style
crs
objects created with sf < 0.9-0 generate a message, and will cause a warning in the future. -
when
st_crs()
is called with a WKT2 as text input, itsinput
field will be replaced with the CRS name (if it has one). -
GEOS (>= 3.9.0) operations use
GEOSGeom_setPrecision_r
to set precision of geometries; #1535 -
st_read()
with specifiedquery
ignores argumentlayers
, and warns if it is given; #1444
-
fix regression in
st_intersection()
: when using s2 attributes were assigned wrongly; #1704 -
crs
(sf) toCRS
(sp) conversion no longer needs validation byrgdal
; edzer/sp#107 -
retrieve ESRI's WKT version of CRS by
st_crs(id)$WKT1_ESRI
; #1690
-
add
s2
to Imports: -
add Dewey Dunnington to contributors
-
sf_use_s2()
prints a message when using s2 has been switched to on or off. -
use
s2
spherical geometry as default when coordinates are ellipsoidal. This can be switched off (defaulting to planar geometry, using GEOS, as in sf < 1.0-0) by setting environment variable_SF_USE_S2
tofalse
before packagesf
is loaded, or bysf_use_s2(FALSE)
; #1649 -
st_nearest_feature()
with missingy
returns nearest features in the remaining set ofx
; r-spatial/s2#111 -
st_write()
gains an argumentconfig_options
to set GDAL config options; #1618 -
fix regression in
sf_project(..., keep = TRUE)
; #1635
-
add
st_as_sf()
method for terra'sSpatVector
class; #1567 -
distinct.sf()
works by default on all variables, and keeps active geometry active; #1613 -
improve (fix?) polygonize/contour code; #1608
-
sf_proj_network()
reports whether PROJ uses network (CDN) grids, can switch it on or off, and can set the CDN url. -
st_write()
returns obj, invisibly; #1597 -
fix regression in n-ary
st_intersection()
, #1595, introduced at #1549 -
st_inscribed_circle()
computes the maximum inscribed circle for polygons (requires GEOS >= 3.9.0) -
allow to
st_cast()
from COMPOUNDCURVE, MULTISURFACE or CURVEPOLYGON to GEOMETRYCOLLECTION, and back; #1573 -
Fixed a bug in
st_as_grob()
when plotting a mix of MULTI and non-MULTI geometries of the same base type
-
n-ary
st_intersection()
skips failing geometries, rather than returning an error; #1549 -
use
s2_centroid()
for geographical coordinates ifsf_use_s2()
isTRUE
. -
st_as_text()
method forcrs
objects can return projjson (if GDAL >= 3.1.0 and PROJ > 6.2.0) -
st_transform()
no longer warns on conversions like"+proj=ob_tran +o_proj=longlat +o_lat_p=45 +o_lon_p=30"
-
st_as_wkb()
takessrid
fromwkt
field ofcrs
wheninput
field doesn't contain it; #1490 -
plot.sf()
addskey.pos=0
option to run the logic behind the key without plotting it; #1487 -
fix bug in
select.sf()
when selected variables were renamed; #1483 -
st_as_sf.stars(..., merge = TRUE)
now works if CRS isNA
; #1389 -
add (dynamically loaded)
as_wkb()
methods forsf
,sfc
andsfg
, makingst_as_s2()
unnecessary -
st_as_s2()
transforms non-longlat objects to EPSG:4326 first
-
gdal_utils()
print (GDAL-style) progress bar ifquiet = FALSE
(except forinfo
andmdiminfo
) -
fix
CPL_gdal_warper
for multi bands; r-spatial/stars#320 -
sf_proj_search_paths()
retrieves and sets the proj search path (if GDAL > 3.0.3) -
when loading sf,
sf_use_s2()
is set toFALSE
unless environment variable_SF_USE_S2
equalstrue
(this changes toTRUE
in sf 1.0-0) -
resolve GDAL/PROJ version vulnerabilities in CRS-crs conversion; #1479
-
st_sample()
gains an argument,by_polygon
, to more clevery sampleMULTIPOLYGON
geometries; #1480 -
st_sample()
accepts non-integer sample sizes, with a (suppressable) warning and handles values of sizes that would round to zero; #1480 -
gdal_utils()
adds utilsmdiminfo
andmdimtranslate
(requires GDAL >= 3.1) -
st_union()
gains an argumentis_coverage
, which, when set toTRUE
, leads to much faster unioning in case features form a coverage (polygons don't overlap); #1462 by Don Baston -
fix
gdal_utils("translate")
locking input file; #1452 -
st_make_grid()
no longer selects cells intersecting withx
; #1447 -
use
s2::s2_dwithin_matrix()
inst_is_within_distance()
; #1367
-
Only when package
s2
>= 1.0.1 is available: support for spherical geometry operators (predicates, transformers, measures, nearest point/feature) for geographic coordinates in packages2
is now by default switched off, and can be switched on bysf_use_s2(TRUE)
; see https://www.r-spatial.org/r/2020/06/17/s2.html and vignette sf7. It is planned to be switched on by default in sf 1.0-0. -
drop Z and/or M coordinate in
st_as_s2()
, with message -
geometry predicates and transformers gain an ... argument to pass
s2::s2_options()
-
dplyr::select()
now ensures the geometry column sticks to the back rather than the front of the data frame; #1425 -
dplyr::rename()
now preserves the active geometry column even when it is renamed; #1431 -
proj units query adjusted to PROJ 7.1.0 release; #1434
-
empty geom generators take care of XYZ etc dim; #1400
-
write_sf()
andread_sf()
no longer warn when reading tables without geometries -
st_write()
writes non-spatial tables when given a plaindata.frame
ortbl_df
; #1345 -
the default for
stringsAsFactors
inst_read
andst_sf
isFALSE
for R version >= 4.1.0 -
the sf method for
dplyr::select()
supports renaming the geometry column; #1415
-
st_is_valid()
is a generic -
Windows CRAN binaries use GDAL 3.0.4, PROJ 6.3.1 and GEOS 3.8.0, thanks to Jeroen Ooms' rwinlib work; #1275
-
plot.sf()
gains anextent
argument to set the extent (xlim, ylim) of the plot;extent
must be an object with anst_bbox()
method, such as ansf
or astars
object; #1193
-
st_axis_order(TRUE)
gives and error if GDAL has version < 2.5.0 -
loading PROJ units
link
,us_in
,ind_yd
,ind_ft
, andind_ch
into the udunits database is no longer done at package load time, but when functionsf_add_proj_units()
is called. -
fix line sampling for small densities; #1365
-
sf_project()
handlescrs
objects when PROJ version is below 6 using proj.4 string representations. -
avoid using
isFALSE
inst_write()
; #1342 -
fix regression in
gdal_utils("translate", ...)
; #1339
-
fix an invalid read bug in
st_m_range()
; #1332 -
st_crs(4326) == st_crs("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs")
returnsTRUE
for GDAL >= 3.0, irrespective authority compliance of axis order; see #1331 and ropensci-archive/scrubr#34 -
sf_project()
has a parameterauthority_compliant
to return coordinates in "visualisation order"; whenTRUE
it returns coordinates in authority compliant axis order (e.g. EPSG:4326 latitude longitude); default isst_axis_order()
. -
fix test for Solaris and certain GDAL/PROJ versions
-
fix error reading category table through GDAL; r-spatial/stars#245
-
see r-spatial blog post: https://www.r-spatial.org/r/2020/03/17/wkt.html
-
modify
crs
objects to reflect our post-proj4string world (#1146; #1225): crs objects contain two fields,input
with the user input (if any), andwkt
with a well-known-text (or WKT2) representation of the coordinate reference system.crs
objects have a$
method to dynamically retrieve theepsg
(integer) orproj4string
representation, using e.g.x$epsg
. -
support for PostGIS 3 using WKT and the new-style
crs
objects; #1234, #1303, #1308 by @etiennebr -
st_write_db()
andst_read_db()
are defunct. Usest_write
andst_read
instead. -
st_write()
usesappend
, replacing (and deprecating) argumentupdate
;st_write
fails when a layer already exists andappend
has not been set explicitly toTRUE
(append) orFALSE
(overwrite); #1266 -
st_proj_info()
was renamed intosf_proj_info
;sf_proj_info
can get and set the PROJ data search path and use of CDN; #1277 -
adapt to new
dplyr
version; tidyverse/dplyr#4917 -
st_sample()
is a generic -
write
stars
rasters with wkt info, rather than proj4strings -
when GEOS >= 3.8.0,
st_make_valid
is provided bysf
rather than bylwgeom
#989 -
allow for single-sided buffers for linear geometries; #1001
-
add
st_reverse()
methods to reverse points in a linestring (requires GEOS >= 3.7.0); #1246 -
st_make_grid()
returns grid cells or points that intersect with the target geometry, not its bounding box; #1260 -
allow for PROJ >= 7; #1254
-
st_geometry_type()
acceptsby_geometry
argument; #1264
-
st_as_sf.map()
no longer requiresmaptools
andsp
; dropped dependency on maptools. -
work around a bug in 6.0.0 <= PROJ < 6.3.1: replace
+init=epsg:XXXX ...
strings with theXXXX
EPSG integer, to work around a bug in PROJ; see OSGeo/PROJ#1875 and links therein. If...
arguments are present, raise a warning that these are ignored. -
st_as_sf.map()
no longer requiresmaptools
andsp
; drop dependency on maptools. -
conversion between
spatstat
classesowin
,ppp
andpsp
andsf
classes no longer usemaptools
; #1204 -
gdal_utils()
processes open options-oo
and-doo
properly; ropensci/osmextract#12 -
st_sample()
directly interfacesspatstat
sampling methods, e.g.type = "Thomas"
callsspatstat::rThomas
after converting input arguments (window) and converts returnedppp
object tosf
'sPOINT
geometries; #1204 with help from Ege Rubak and Jakub Nowosad -
sf_project()
gains an optionkeep = TRUE
to returnInf
values for points not projectable; #1228 -
support
vctrs
methods for geometry list columns; this makesunnest
work again (#1172); #1196 by Lionel Henry -
st_as_sf.pq_geometry()
converts binary geom columns from RPostgres::dbGetQuery; #1195 -
st_cast()
can convertMULTICURVE
toMULTILINESTRING
; #1194 -
st_read()
gains a parameterwkt_filter
for spatially filtering the features to be read; #1192 -
st_area()
andst_length()
handle+to_meter
argument in PROJ strings; #1170 -
add
st_filter()
generic for filtering on spatial features only; #1148 -
a new UBSAN error in
wkb_read()
was resolved; #1154, #1152 -
new method
st_shift_longitude()
to re-center data for a Pacific view. #1218 -
output of
st_as_text()
withMULTIPOINT
has nested parentheses around points. E.g.,MULTIPOINT ((0 0), (1 1))
instead ofMULTIPOINT (0 0, 1 1)
; #1219, #1221
-
fix tests for PROJ 6.2.0 not accepting +units=
-
fixes for tidyr 1.0-0 release; attempt to port
nest.sf()
andunnest.sf()
; #1068, #1145 -
gdal_utils()
better closes connections after use; #1143 -
st_write()
gains adrivers
options, to limit the drivers attempted; #1142 -
rather than replacing,
st_write()
andwrite_sf()
append to an existing layer ifupdate=TRUE
; #1126 -
improve plotting of
POSIXct
andDate
attributes (Date
requiring classInt >= 0.4-2) -
NULL
geometries read by GDAL are returned as empty geometries; #1119 -
gdal_utils('rasterize', ...)
accepts non-existing destinations, defined by e.g. resolution and extent options (see #1116 for an example), and overwrites if needed (see #1136 for an example) -
add Dan Baston as contributor; #1120 and many others
-
in addition to
NULL
,st_sfc()
also convertsNA
values into empty geometries; #1114. -
st_join()
is a generic
-
plot()
handlesPOSIXct
values in legend -
constructor functions like
st_linestring()
check and break onNA
coordinates; #1101, #1102
- have examples of
st_write
write only to the temporary R session directory
-
as(x, "Spatial")
gives a proper error message on empty geometries; #1093 -
st_cast()
takes care of empty polygons; #1094 -
st_nearest_*
functions warn in case they are used with geographic coordinates; #1081 -
st_union()
no longer segfaults on zero rowsf
objects; #1077 -
st_transform()
no longer breaks on zero rowsf
objects; #1075 -
when PROJ >= 6.1.0 is available and sf comes with datum files (as is the case with statically linked Windows and OSX CRAN binaries),
PROJ_LIB
is no longer temporarily overwritten, but the PROJ C api is used to set the datum path; #1074, suggested by Jeroen Ooms -
sf compiles against GDAL 3.x and PROJ 6.1.0, using the new
proj.h
interface; #1070 -
st_distance()
returnsNA
for empty geometries, rather than 0; #1055
-
add example on how voronoi polygons can be tied back to the points they contain; #1030
-
st_difference(x, y)
, withx
ansfc
with zero feature geometries, returnsx
; #1024 -
don't reset (base) plot device when
add = TRUE
-
==
and!=
returnNA
when one of the operands is an empty geometry; #1013 -
st_intersects()
is a generic -
drop requiring
proj_api.h
in favor ofproj.h
, this enables compatibility to PROJ 6.0.0 and GDAL 2.5.0-dev; #988 -
fix regression in binary predicates introduced in #855; #999 reported by Barry Rowlingson
-
fix bug in
gdal_utils
utilwarper
on certain GDAL/OS combinations; r-spatial/stars#117 -
c.sfc()
ignores the type (class) of emptysfc
objects when choosing the result type; #985, #982 -
rename the default value for
distance
to"Euclidean"
, rather than"distance"
inst_distance()
-
add argument
exact
tost_sample()
, defaulting toFALSE
; #896 -
fixed n-ary
st_difference()
for cases where geometries are entirely contained in others; #975, by Jonathan Marshall -
faster
Ops.sfc()
, addedst_normalize()
; #973 by Thomas Lin Pedersen -
new grob constructor for sfc objects; #971 by Thomas Lin Pedersen; add Thomas as contributor
-
add
group_split()
andgroup_map()
methods forsf
objects (experimental); #969 -
make
st_interpolate_aw()
a generic; -
argument
col
forplot
ofGEOMETRY
sfc
's isNA
(open) for (multi) polygon geometries
-
feature IDs are no longer returned as names on the geometry list column, but optionally returned by
st_read
as attribute column; #812 -
when plotting multiple attributes, plot.sf adds a (single, common) key if
key.pos
is set -
precision can be specified in distance units; #901
-
support log-scale in color legend by setting
logz
toTRUE
inplot.sf
-
st_intersects()
etc. will preparey
wheny
is polygons andx
is points; #885 by Dan Baston -
st_write()
(andwrite_sf()
) returns its first argument, invisibly; #889
- fix bug that broke n-ary
st_intersection()
on platforms using clang; #867
-
adds several interfaces to GDAL functions, meant to be used by package
stars
-
st_read()
receives aquery
argument that can run queries against OGR datasets; #834, by Barry Rowlingson and Michael Sumner -
read_sf()
no longer first creates tibbles fromdata.frame
s, but creates them directly; #853, db propagation by Etienne Racine -
check difference between compile-time and run-time GEOS versions; #844
-
all GEOS routines are (more) robust against memory leaks, by using unique pointers; #822, #845, by Dan Baston
-
st_buffer()
receives the buffer stylesendCapStyle
,joinStyle
andmitreLimit
; #833, #842 by Michael Sumner
-
st_area()
is a generic; r-spatial/stars#32 -
st_write()
resolves~
correctly; #456 -
read and write feature IDs as sfc list column names; #812
-
st_centroid()
works for empty geometries, returning an empty point #769 -
add
st_nearest_points()
, to obtain the (LINESTRING
connecting the) two nearest points for pairs of geometries; #788 -
add hexagonal tiling to
st_make_grid()
-
add regular and hexagonal sampling to
st_sample()
-
fixes for PROJ 5.0.1; #545
-
fixes for GDAL 2.3.0; #759
-
st_sample()
supports regular sampling ofLINESTRING
; #725 by @statnmap -
Support reading and writing of database
Pool
objects; #756 -
fix plotting of
sf
objects without attributes; #755 -
add reference to the R Journal article in CITATION
-
move dependency
RPostgreSQL
from Imports: back to Suggests: -
st_centroid.sf()
andst_point_on_surface.sf
also warn if attributes are not constant over geometries. -
summarise()
allows the user to define geometries for summaries; #714, by Kirill Mueller -
plot.sf()
emits a warning ifcol
does not have length 1 ornrow(x)
, and requirespal
(rather thancol
) to set a palette for factors. -
plot.sf()
provides control over legend keys usingkey.length
andkey.width
, decrease default key length; #731 -
sgbp
objects receive anas.data.frame
method; #715
-
GDAL read/write supports logical variables; #722
-
add
st_crop()
to simplify cropping objects with a rectangular area; #720 -
fix bug in
[<-
when columns are added to ansf
object; #718 -
use dynamic registration of S3 methods, similar to how hms does this; #710 by Kirill Mueller
-
(partially) address writing GPKG to network drive, writing to temp file first; #628
-
add Kirill Mueller as contributor
-
st_make_grid()
is faster; #708, by Dan Baston -
st_read()
andst_write()
are generic, with methods for directly reading from and writing to database connections;st_read_db
andst_write_db
are deprecated; #558, thanks to Etienne Racine @etiennebr -
Package
RPostgreSQL
moved from Suggests to Imports -
restore compatibility with GDAL 2.0.x versions (which won't have
gdal_utils
); #686 -
read_sf()
can also read tables without geometry; #684, by Andy Teucher
-
method
distinct()
works; #669, #672 -
+
,-
,*
and/
for pairs of geometries (sfg
,sfc
) return geometric union, difference, intersection and symmetric difference, respectively. -
st_cast()
fromMULTIPOLYGON
toMULTILINESTRING
should work properly; #660 -
all Rcpp interfaces needed by package
stars
have been moved intosf
; pkgstars
is R-only, and onlysf
needs linking to GDAL. -
gdal_utils()
interfaces the 9 gdal utils using the C++ API -
improve resetting (base) plots; add
reset = FALSE
in a call toplot
to enable adding to plots that have a legend -
st_read()
returns adata.frame
when a table contains no geometries, rather than giving an error; it does emit a warning in this case. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2018-February/026344.html -
move
pillar
fromImports:
toSuggests:
-
update to the new rwinlib distribution of gdal (adds JPG2000); #639
-
speed up computation of centroids for largest polygon; #623
-
add
st_as_sfc.raw
method -
Bugfix: binary operations (
st_intersection
,st_difference
, etc) no longer fail when operating on data frames of class"tbl_df"
with common column names; #644
-
add
pillar
to Imports: to provide method for printing WKT geometries in tibbles -
st_as_text
, and subsequentlyformat
andprint
, use argumentdigits
(oroptions(digits = n)
) to control the number of digits used for printing coordinates; default isoptions("digits")
, which is typically 7. -
st_is_within_distance
works with geographic coordinates -
st_cast
fromMULTIPOLYGON
toMULTILINESTRING
no longer changes the number of features/feature geometries, but conversion fromMULTIPOLYGON
toLINESTRING
(typically) does; #596 -
st_distance
for long/lat geographic coordinates useslwgeom
, accepting all geometry types; argumentdist_fun
is deprecated as a consequence, and distance calculations are different from those in sf versions 0.5-5 or earlier; #593 -
add package
lwgeom
to Suggests;st_area
,st_length
,st_distance
,st_segmentize
for long/lat CRS use packagelwgeom
instead ofgeosphere
; #593 -
st_length
returns zero for polygon-type geometries; #593 -
if present, add units of attribute to default plot title; #591
-
add
unnest
method, which depends ontidyr
> 0.7-2; #570 PR by @karldw -
add
largest
option tost_join
to get largest intersection match only; #547, by @tiernanmartin -
change default maximum number of feature to print to 10, controllable by
options(sf_max_print)
; #556 -
add
Hausdorff
(andFrechet
for those with GEOS 3.7.0) as options tost_distance
; addpar
for densified versions -
add
st_snap
, for snapping geometries to other geometries, within a tolerance -
make
st_wrap_dateline
a generic, with methods forsf
,sfc
andsfg
; #541 -
plot.sf
andst_as_grob
(used by ggplot2) are robust against misspecified ring directions (holes that have the same direction as the exterior rings), by usingrule = "evenodd"
; #540 -
functions depending on
liblwgeom
(st_make_valid
,st_geohash
,st_plit
) have been moved to their own package, https://github.com/r-spatial/lwgeom; argumentuse_gdal
ofst_transform
has been deprecated, instead one can uselwgeom::st_transform_proj
; sf no longer tries to link to liblwgeom; #509, #537, #487 -
st_read
,st_sf
andst_sfc
gain a parametercheck_ring_dir
(default:FALSE
) that checks ring directions and corrects to: exterior counter clockwise, holes clockwise, when seen from above. -
get rid of
classInt::classIntervals
warning if number of unique values is smaller than the number of breaks asked for
-
have
classInt
in Imports:, to not break other package checks -
add vignettes 5: plotting sf objects and 6: miscellaneous; #324
-
add (default) color key to
plot.sf
if single map is plotted, contributed by @hughjonesd; #528 -
st_as_sfc
can read EWKT; #530 -
argument
max.plot
takes its default fromoptions(sf_max.plot=n)
, if present; #516 -
plot.sf
gets an argumentspal
to specify a color palette function; #526 -
plot.sf
gets argumentsbreaks
andnbreaks
; add support forclassInt::classIntervals
styles for finding class intervals (usingbreaks
) -
add
st_as_sf
methods forppp
,lpp
andpsp
objects from spatstat. -
allow for direct route to proj.4 ignoring GDAL (requiring liblwgeom); #509, #511
-
add
print
method forcrs
objects; #517 -
sf_extSoftVersion
reveals whether GDAL was linked to GEOS; #510 -
better check input of
st_polygon
; #514 -
add
st_node
, similar torgeos::gNode
-
support for reading
OFTInteger64List
fields; #508 -
sparse geometric binary predicate lists have a class,
sgbp
, and attributesregion.id
andpredicate
; #234, #524 -
prevent
st_split
from stopping the R session; #492 -
st_intersection
,st_union
and so on also print a message when used directly on long/lat coordinates; #496 -
add
rep
method forsfc
objects -
comparing two
crs
objects uses the GDAL functionIsSame
; #180 -
add
st_collection_extract
, which, given an object with geometries of typeGEOMETRY
orGEOMETRYCOLLECTION
, returns an object consisting only of elements of the specified type; by Andy Teucher, #482 -
st_write
exports GeoJSON with UTF-8 encoding on Windows; #444 -
move package methods from Imports: to Depends: ; #478
-
deal better with precision setting and propagation; #476
-
fix bug in
st_layers
in case layers have no geometry; #334 -
clarify argument
envelope
inst_voronoi
; #474 -
change aggregate to make it return the same geometry as 'by', padding attributes with NA where needed; #453
-
fix compatibility problems introduced by
tidyr
0.7-0 using rlang magic -
convert path names to UTF-8 in
st_read
,st_write
andst_layers
; #471 -
st_sfc
convertsNULL
values into empty geometries, and correctly identifies emptyPOINT
s; #466, #463 -
st_write
abbreviates column names if driver isESRI Shapefile
; #464 -
add
of_largest_polygon
argument tost_centroid
, to get the centroid of the largest polygon; #450 -
fix use of
st_relate
as join predicate forst_join
; #454 -
fix bug where
st_intersects
with empty second argument would crash; #458 -
produce better WKT; #463
-
fix bug in
st_cast.sf
; #461, #462 -
change
st_read
SRS assignment logic; corrects reading projected geojson with gdal 2.2.0; #449 -
st_intersection
etc. ontbl
also returntbl
; #448 -
[.sf
preserves class, e.g. oftbl
; #448
-
support and propagate all Proj.4 +units=xx length units; #446
-
allow for arith ops on empty
sfc
objects -
have
st_graticule
return an empty graticule object when argumentdatum
isNA
; -
export
as_Spatial
, to make it easier for packages to convertsfc
objects without importingsf
-
st_distance
gains a parameterby_element
to obtain pairwise distances; #437 -
add the ability to
aggregate
using a simple featureby
argument; #429 -
make the
op
argument to[.sf
work -
speed up
st_coordinates
forPOINT
geometries; #433 -
fix performance regression for
st_bbox
; #418 -
correct bug in
st_union
,st_difference
andst_sym_difference
introduced in 0.5-2; #431 -
inform gdal about the CRS always through the proj4string, never through the epsg; see #424
-
properly deal with kilometre units; #424 (fixed by Karl Dunkle Werner)
-
add
st_is_within_distance
, only to return a sparse index matrix; #419 -
have
st_graticule
work with world2 (0,360); #421, #422, fixed by Ben Best -
st_graticule
to return graticules in native crs; tidyverse/ggplot2#2200 (WIP) -
st_graticule
to support data inNA_crs_
; tidyverse/ggplot2#2199 -
fix bug when joining an sf-tibble with a
tibble
; #414 -
read gdal
StringList
,RealList
, andIntegerList
fields into a list-column; #416
-
made ready for rwinlib/gdal2; #408
-
make
[.sf
for selections includingNA
values likex[c(1,NA,2)]
; #403 -
add a
[<-
method forsfc
objects; automatically replacesNULL
with an empty geometry; #411 -
add
st_point_on_surface()
to return a point that is guaranteed to be on the surface (standard compliance) -
read_sf
returns an sf-tibble, an object of classc("sf", "tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame")
-
work around for
dplyr::filter
not dispatching geometry column subsetting tosf::[.sfc
-
allow
units
object asdist
argument tost_buffer
; these must be convertable toarc_degree
for geographic, and to a length unit for non-geographic data; #399 -
prevent gdal from crashing when trying to
st_transform
an empty geometry; #398 -
add
st_as_sfc
method forbbox
, returning the bbox polygon; #377 -
strip file name extension from default layer name in
st_write
; #392 -
have
st_sf
replaceNULL
values in ansfc
list-column with the appropriate empty geometry; #372 -
allow setting
ndiscr
throughggplot2::coords_sf
to improve graticule plotting ingeom_sf
; #396
-
add spatial indexes to most binary geometry operations; #394 and http://r-spatial.org/r/2017/06/22/spatial-index.html
-
drastically reduce memory footprint of
st_intersection
and similar; #394 -
support RSQLite 2.0 by providing an
st_as_sfc
method for list columns of classblob
-
drop dependency on dbplyr
-
better handle empty/NULL geometries in shapefiles; #351
-
add
unite_.sf
method -
deprecate
FUN
argument tost_join
; #376 -
improve graticule tic label placement in
ggplot2
; #375 and tidyverse/ggplot2#2119 -
improve
configure
logic to deal with libraries installed in custom locations; #335 -
fix bug where
geom_sf
wouldn't deal with Z and/or M geoms; #373 -
return more conveniently typed empty geoms; #372
-
fix subsetting with
[
ofsf
usingdrop = TRUE
, #370 -
in addition to
m
, allowrad
units tost_segmentize
-
add example how to
st_read
GeoJSON from a string; #185 -
add
separate_.sf
method -
add
st_split
to split geometries (only available if compiled against liblwgeom), #359 -
fix bug reading and writing dates (months 1 off): #358
-
[.sf and [.sfc also select on i when i is an
sfg
object, and accept a geometric predicate function with optional arguments; #352 -
on reading through GDAL, empty (NULL) geometries no longer result in an error; on creation, they no longer automatically give a
GEOMETRY
object; #351 -
on plotting with
ggplot2::geom_sf
, empty geometries no longer break; grid functions returnnullGrob()
for them; #351 -
arith operations on empty geometries no longer break or give warnings; #351
-
have
st_as_sf.data.frame
by default break onNA
values in coordinates; #342 -
have
st_join
accept further arguments, to be passed on to thejoin
function (e.g. a pattern forst_relate
) -
have WKB reader throw an error on (some) malformed inputs, and check for buffer bounds
-
back-port
do_union
argument to dplyr <= 0.5.0, using lazyeval -
all strings returned from OGR/GDAL get encoding set to
UTF-8
, making them work on non-UTF-8 platforms; #5 -
$.crs
retrieves proj4string components, such asst_crs(4326)$datum
in addition toepsg
andproj4string
-
let
st_geohash
return geohash for (average) points (only when sf was linked to liblwgeom)
-
summarise.sf
always returns ansf
object, also for global (non-grouped) summaries. -
summarise.sf
gains an argumentdo_union
which determines whether to union the geometries for which a summary is given, or tost_combine
them (not resolving boundaries); #331 -
rename argument
union
ofaggregate.sf
intodo_union
, for consistency withsummarise
; #331 -
add a
nest_
method forsf
objects -
st_relate
gets apattern
parameter, same asrgeos::gRelate
; add examples to get rook and queen neighbour lists using this; #234 -
support for direct reading of spatialite and sqlite geometry wkb blobs
-
build proper support for
cbind
andrbind
methods forsf
, which work (as documented) when all arguments are of classsf
;dplyr::bind_cols
orst_sf(data.frame(sf, df))
work for bindingdata.frame
s to ansf
object. -
st_segmentize()
andst_line_sample()
accept units arguments -
document problem reading shapefiles from USB drives on OSX; #252
-
improve docs of
st_is_valid
andst_make_valid
; #296 -
coercing
sf
todata.frame
works better; #298 -
st_line_sample
gains argumentsample
to specify the points t.b. sampled; #299 #300 thanks to @joethorley -
add compatibility to upcoming dplyr 0.6.0; #304 #42
-
write GDAL fields by name, not by number, fixing a KML problem #308
-
st_write
gains argumentsdelete_layer
anddelete_dsn
to allow overwrite capability #307 #274 -
write_sf
defaults todelete_layer=TRUE
, silently overwriting layers if they're already present -
compatibility with GDAL 2.2beta0; #303; #309
-
replace
st_write_db
with a version that is fast for large datasets (#285), thanks to Josh London -
take out more memory leaking examples in tests
-
the
aggregate
method forsf
objects assumes theby
argument to be identical to that ofstats::aggregate
-
st_wrap_dateline
wraps (cuts up) geometries crossing the antimeridian, such that they no longer cross it.
-
restore 3.3.0 and c++11 requirement
-
st_read
respects time that is read as UTC -
st_write
writes time always as UTC, since GDAL does not have a mechanism to define local timezones other than "unknown" or "local" -
st_length
works for POINT and MULTIPOINT (returning 0); POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON are converted to MULTILINESTRING before computing length, thus giving polygon perimeter (#268) -
st_write
hasupdate
depend on driver; for databases, the default isTRUE
, otherwiseFALSE
(it refers to update of the database, and not to overwriting the table in the database, this will by default not succeed); #274 -
st_read
supports reading objects with multiple geometry columns #257 #255 -
support writing (exporting) objects with non-standard columns, such as
units
orPOSIXlt
#264 -
catch dependencies on GEOS 3.3.5 (hence no 0.4-0 CRAN binary for MacOSX) #260
-
have
st_is_valid
catch corrupt geometries too, returningNA
in that case (requiring GEOS 3.5.0) -
add
st_make_valid
, only available when sf was linked toliblwgeom
-
add
st_coordinates
method, returning coordinates matrix with indexes -
remove
unlist.sfg
-
add
as.matrix.sfg
; have as.matrix.sfg add indexes to coordinates -
add
st_bind_cols
method -
improve handling features that can't be projected
-
support uniform sampling over polygons on the sphere
-
add
st_sample
, for sampling points on multipoints, linestrings, or polygons -
add
c
method forsfc
objects -
import and export
magrittr::%>%
-
support ggplot'ing geometrycollections
-
drop C++11 requirement, allowing build for older R versions
-
add
st_proj_info
, modelled afterrgdal::projInfo
-
overwriting datasets with
st_write()
is no longer allowed;update=TRUE
appends to them, permitted the driver supports appending. -
st_write
gains an argument,update
, which whenTRUE
will try to append to existing datasets (#204) -
added list of corresponding function for migration from sp, rgdal and rgeos to sf at https://github.com/edzer/sfr/wiki/migrating
-
remove deprecated
st_list
-
rename
st_makegrid
tost_make_grid
, andst_linemerge
tost_line_merge
-
add NEWS.md file (#207)
-
faster conversion of
data.frame
intoPOINT
sf
object, usingst_as_sf
(Michael Sumner) -
rbind
method forsf
objects keeps coordinate reference system
-
add
st_contains_properly
spatial predicate -
GEOS functions (geometry operations) accept XYZ geometries (and ignore Z)
-
make
prepared = TRUE
the default for all geometry binary operations
-
add user interrupt checks in all GEOS geometry operations
-
make
st_graticule
do something useful for polar projections -
make
st_graticule
returnNA
labels when labels are useless -
add
merge.sf
methods to mergesf
object anddata.frame
(#193) -
add
st_join
for table joins based on (user-defined) spatial predicates -
add
dplyr
-style non-spatial joins forsf
objects (left_join
,full_join
etc.) (#193) -
allow for multiple non-gathered variables (#196)
-
add missing meridian to
st_graticule
(#198)
-
add
merge
method (#193) -
st_graticule
for laea (#198) -
allow
st_buffer
with feature-dependent buffer distance (#197) -
have
spread
return ansf
object (#196) -
clarify
overwrite = TRUE
in write docs -
fix
st_as_sf.map
(#194) -
add
prepared
arg to spatial binary predicates, to speed up large intersections -
add
st_voronoi
interface (requires that lib GEOS >= 3.5.0) -
add
st_as_sf
methods formap
objects (library maps) -
add RStudio project file
-
have
st_bbox
return abbox
object which has anst_crs
method -
rename
st_drop_zm
intost_zm
, for general more handling of Z and M -
allow for 3D coordinates returned, when
+proj=geocent
(#172; #103) -
fix
NA_integer_
handling in shapefiles I/O (#184) -
add and fix
st_agr
API, to set and get attribute-to-geometry relationships