whitebox 2.1.5.9000 (development)

wbt_rust_backtrace(), a helper method for debugging Rust-related failures of the command-line tool, is now exported
wbt_run_tool(): Fix potentially length > 1 logic in if() statement for error status messages to avoid warnings/future errors
download.file() method="wininet" has been deprecated so it is no longer in the possible set of methods to try on Windows when a download fails

whitebox 2.1.5

Added wbt_install_extension() and wbt_activate() for downloading, installing and activating WhiteboxTools extensions
wbt_internal_tool_name() now returns tool names in CamelCase, and these are the tool names passed via the command line

Suggest {terra} instead of {raster} and update demo vignette accordingly; drops {rgdal} suggest
Add support for path expansion in wd arguments passed directly to tool functions; this was already supported for other methods of setting the working directory
Updates to wbttools and wbttoolparameters datasets
- Fix for argument_name='k'
- Remove several one and two character flag aliases from argument_name and replace with full name
Add support for showing warning messages in regular interactive/verbose mode, thanks to @alenahav for reporting an issue (https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/75) with wbt_fd8_flow_accumulation()
Functions that take multiple files are auto-quoted by default; thanks to François-Nicolas Robinne for reporting issue (@FNRobinne; https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/55) with wbt_mosaic()
Error output is now more verbose, ensuring relevant tool output is displayed to user on error regardless of verbosity, platform, etc. Thanks to Jeffrey W. Rozelle for reporting issue (@jwilliamrozelle; https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/80) with getting error messages about unsupported raster types

Generated whitebox_tools commands no longer include flags for default arguments that are stored in settings.json unless specified by the user.
- Updates to fix issues with permissions to write settings.json; thanks to Henrik (@hewag1975) for reporting problems on Shiny Server (https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/67)
wbt_install() / install_whitebox() now removes the downloaded zip file on exit thanks to Christoph Stepper (@cstepper; https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/72)
New default arguments for wbt_list_tools(), wbt_time_in_daylight(), wbt_shadow_image() thanks to Jens Wiesehahn (@wiesehahn; https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/70, https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/73)

File path arguments to tools now automatically perform path expansion (converting ~ to your home directory with path.expand()). This also works on arguments that contain comma or semicolon delimited lists. (https://github.com/giswqs/whiteboxR/issues/62)
Corrections to wbttoolparameters dataset (updated classification of input/output parameters)
Fix for wbt_lidar_tin_gridding() exclude_cls argument
Add wbt_compress_rasters() to set package option whitebox.compress_rasters
- Updated how --compress_rasters parameter is passed via command line. Now the flag is added to all commands regardless of whether the value is TRUE or FALSE. This allows update of settings.json accordingly when --compress_rasters=FALSE. RE: https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/issues/233#issuecomment-1065955783
Add wbt_max_procs() to set package option whitebox.max_procs
All wbt_*() tool functions now take a command_only argument that is passed to wbt_run_tool(). When TRUE, the function returns the command that would be run by system() instead of running the tool.

Update for WhiteboxTools v2.1.0
- See https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/whitebox-geospatial-news/ for details

Update for WhiteboxTools v2.0.0
- See https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/releases/tag/v2.0.0 for details

Enhancements:

whitebox::install_whitebox() will call wbt_init() on the exe_path after unpacking to target directory
wbt_init() exe_path, wbt_wd() wd, and install_whitebox() pkg_dir paths can be specified with shorthand ~ for home directory, which is expanded with path.expand()
Unsetting working directories requires only a single call to wbt_wd("")
Functions no longer use match.call() so unconventional/automated methods for calling tools that do not have a parsable tool name in the call result now work (#45)

Add package options for custom EXE path and verbosity
- Changes behavior of wbt_init(); now only checks EXE path
Adds install_whitebox() to handle downloading and installing WhiteboxTools

wbt_init() can set any of the other options in the same call as the custom EXE path.
- wbt_options() returns current option values
Use a system environment variable (R_WHITEBOX_EXE_PATH) or package option (whitebox.exe_path)
- Get / set with wbt_init().
Verbosity controlled with (R_WHITEBOX_VERBOSE) or package option (whitebox.verbose)
- Get / set with wbt_verbose()
Working directory controlled with (R_WHITEBOX_WD) or package option (whitebox.wd)
- Get / set with wbt_wd()
New “whitebox Demo” vignette
New data wbttools and wbttoolparameters data.frame built from WhiteboxTools v1.5.0 and wbt_tool_parameters() output for full tool library
- See the “whitebox Tool Metadata” vignette

Update to WhiteboxTools v1.5.0
More information about this version can be found at https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/releases/tag/1.5.0 for more info.

Update to WhiteboxTools v1.4.0
More information about this version can be found at https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/releases/tag/v1.4.0

Update to WhiteboxTools v1.3.1
More information about this version can be found at https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools/releases/tag/v1.3.1