Changes in version 0.9                         

  - mirai based par_* functions for parallelization
  - inst/extdata contents were moved to tests/testdata in 0.9.1
  - CRAN ready: unexported function examples are moved to /tools on
    GitHub
  - SoftwareX paper is published; DOI and inst/CITATION is added
  - Supports H3 and DGGRID gridding functions from 0.9.5
  - Generic function using all-sf inputs in x and y is supported in
    par_*() functions
  - par_make_h3() adds H3 indices to output sf object
  - summarize_pp(): point to polygon summary
  - summarize_st(): summarize the extracted values by space or time

                         Changes in version 0.8                         

  - Bumped version from 0.7.8 to 0.8.0: improving package coverage
  - README.md: two mermaid plots are pre-generated as png files
  - Internal clip_*() functions and vect_validate() are removed
  - par_map_args() is renamed to par_convert_f()
  - init.R: one-line initialization for bbox class detection (cf.
    https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/2448)

                         Changes in version 0.7                         

  - .check_package refactoring: no library() call is required
  - Internal function .check_par_spatraster is added to main par_*
    functions
  - Internal preprocessing "dot-functions" -- universally usable
    functions are plain S3, whereas others that are class-specific were
    implemented in S4
  - Added
      - CITATION.cff
      - par_*: argument pad_y to enable applying padded extent to x or y
        (e.g., y in raster-vector overlay and x otherwise)
  - Updated
      - README.Rmd: split the combined one into two mermaid figures ->
        MD rebuilt, removed date of last update
      - par_*: argument name change from debug to .debug
  - Dropped
      - Custom backend for future and mirai; rolling back to
        future.apply
      - any_class_args, is_within_ref, par_fallback,
        check_dist_incorrect
      - par_grid argument: grids_input_ids
      - Data: SRTM (TIFF replaces RDS)
  - Data preprocessing parts are separated into internal functions
  - Name change
      - check_subject to .check_vector
      - reproject_b2r to reproject_to_raster
      - vect_valid_repair to vect_validate
  - targets-friendly helper function: par_split_list
      - Vignette for par_split_list
  - par_* family naming hierarchy: par_make_* to par_pad_*
      - Plain gridding (par_make_grid) and clustering
        (par_make_balanced) functions are internal
  - Main par_* runners (par_grid, par_hierarchy, par_multirasters) are
    kept
  - extract_at is redesigned as a S4 method
  - All messaging is managed by cli package
  - Added zzz.R for startup message
  - summarize_aw gets generic argument names x and y
  - mirai backend is introduced
  - Internal functions are not exported
  - Type check function check_subject is added. This function is
    internal.
  - vapply argument FUN.VALUE fixed

                         Changes in version 0.6                         

  - Fixed: grid_target_id in par_grid accepts numeric or character input
    to filter grids
  - par_fallback is returning error_message field with actual error
    messages
  - collapse package is added to Imports (i.e., rowbind function is used
    in place of dplyr::bind_rows)
  - Tests were fixed following refactoring/updating par_* functions
  - chopin processing functions now support file path input with extents
    in par_grid
  - Fixed: Missing argument passing in par_pad_grid with mode =
    "grid_advanced"
  - Vignette update: v01
  - Fixed: align input-output classes in par_merge_grid
  - Improved: grid_advanced mode supports the maximum of merged unit
    grids
  - Added the balanced number mode of splitting input points
    (par_pad_balanced; thanks to comments of Dr. Michael Fessler)
  - Added function of the balanced mode for par_grid (par_group_grid)
  - All internal sapply is changed to vapply
  - Added a diagram for guiding users' choice for par_* functions for
    parallelization considering raster/vector data situations
  - litr R Markdown file is moved to the archive

                         Changes in version 0.5                         

  - par_grid unifies the classes of grid inputs
  - par_cut_coords: a supplementary function effectively operating with
    par_def_q for mode = "grid_quantile" in par_pad_grid. X- and
    Y-coordinates (of centroids for polygon inputs) are split into
    quantile groups to balance the number of features in each grid; does
    not account for geometric complexity (i.e., number of vertices)
  - Padded grid generation in par_pad_grid is done only by terra::buffer
  - extract_at* functions get max_cells, which is passed to
    exactextractr::exact_extract for speedup in expense of memory
    pressure
  - Added a new vignette on the demonstration of climate/weather data
    extraction

                         Changes in version 0.4                         

  - surf argument in extract_at*() accepts file paths
  - Raster cropping is now optional

                         Changes in version 0.3                         

  - Dropped rast_short
  - Added examples
  - README.md is replaced by README.Rmd
  - Documentation is clarified about the second argument in ... in par_*
    functions