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dissmapr

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R package dissmapr by b-cubed-eu — release notes from GitHub.

github.com/b-cubed-eu/dissmapr ↗

dissmapr spent its first releases becoming citable rather than adding methods.

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◆Current state
dissmapr provides an R workflow for compositional dissimilarity and turnover — occurrence data through spatial gridding and environmental linkage to order-wise dissimilarity and bioregional mapping. All three releases to date are infrastructure: a first citable archive in June 2026, then a maturity release aligning the package with the B-Cubed software development guide. The ten-function pipeline described in the notes has not changed across them.
◆Where it's heading
The work is compliance-shaped rather than method-shaped: explicit @importFrom in place of whole-namespace imports, library() calls removed from package code, roughly 11 MB of development caches dropped, a runnable README quick-start, and Zenodo archival with CITATION.cff and codemeta.json. dissmapr moves in lockstep with its B-Cubed sibling invasimapr — both tagged 0.1.0 within three minutes of each other and 0.2.0 on the same day — so releases here reflect project-wide standards deadlines more than package-specific work. The stated roadmap of additional ecological distance metrics has not yet landed.
◆Prediction
With standards work now signed off and R CMD check clean, the next release is the first real chance for the roadmap items — additional ecological distance metrics — to arrive.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Version bump; notes identical to 0.2.0

    A version bump carrying no distinguishable change: the release notes are byte-identical to 0.2.0's apart from the version string in the first line. The substantive standards work is 0.2.0's, seventeen days earlier.

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  2. 1mo ago

    B-Cubed standards alignment, docs overhaul and a citable DOI

    The maturity release: restructured to the B-Cubed software development guide, R CMD check clean at 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notes, nine tutorials moved into pkgdown Articles behind a Get started vignette, and a Zenodo DOI with machine-readable citation metadata. Namespace hygiene and roughly 11 MB of trimmed bundled data come with it; the analysis surface is unchanged.

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  3. 1mo ago

    dissmapr v0.1.0: First citable release

    The first archived release, tagged explicitly to give the package a persistent version for citation, reuse and FAIR assessment rather than to ship new capability. It fixes the scope dissmapr has kept since: occurrence preparation, gridding, environmental linkage, order-wise dissimilarity and bioregional mapping.

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