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invasimapr

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

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invasimapr halved its install size and became citable; the science stayed put.

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◆Current state
invasimapr estimates species invasiveness and site invasibility from trait, environmental and resident-community data, exposing a traits → competition → invasion-fitness pipeline behind seven high-level wrappers. Its three releases are all packaging and standards work: a first citable archive in June 2026, then a maturity release bringing it in line with the B-Cubed software development guide. The one behavioral addition in that release is an opt-in standardise_inputs argument on compute_invasion_fitness(), off by default.
◆Where it's heading
The pressure is toward being installable and auditable rather than more capable — install slimmed from roughly 100 MB to 56 MB, R CMD check warnings and notes resolved, sp moved to Suggests, a Darwin Core-aligned data dictionary added, and a Zenodo concept DOI with CITATION.cff, codemeta.json and .zenodo.json. The package moves in lockstep with its B-Cubed sibling dissmapr, tagged within minutes of each other at both 0.1.0 and 0.2.1, which points at project-level standards deadlines rather than independent release decisions. Trait dispersion metrics and scenario exploration remain on the roadmap.
◆Prediction
Standards compliance is now complete and the roadmap names functional trait dispersion metrics and scenario exploration tools, so the next release is the first that can plausibly be about invasion ecology rather than packaging.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Version bump; notes identical to 0.2.0

    A version bump whose release notes are byte-identical to 0.2.0's apart from the version string in the first line. The standards and slimming work it describes belongs to 0.2.0, seventeen days earlier.

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  2. 1mo ago

    B-Cubed standards alignment; install slimmed to 56 MB

    The maturity release: R CMD check warnings and notes cleared, install cut from roughly 100 MB to 56 MB, tutorials moved into pkgdown Articles, a Darwin Core-aligned data dictionary added, and a Zenodo concept DOI issued. compute_invasion_fitness() also gains an opt-in standardise_inputs argument to re-standardise raw predictors onto a common z-scale, off by default.

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  3. 1mo ago

    invasimapr v0.1.0: First citable release

    The first archived release, tagged to give the package a persistent citable version for reuse and FAIR assessment rather than to add capability. It fixes the scope invasimapr has held since: trait dispersion, invasion fitness, and decision-ready invasiveness and invasibility indicators.

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