camtrapR

• added GitHub and Google Group links to the header;
• record preview in the filter section is collapsed by default; various label, tooltip and progress-indicator improvements

Occupancy models

• community occupancy models (commOccu) can now be fitted from JAGS model code stored in the new modelText slot, without an external model file
• createCovariates() now accept plain data frames with coordinates (new arguments xcol, ycol, crs; converted to sf internally)
• consistent terminology: "community models" instead of "multi-species models"

Data import

• the Camtrap DP interface was rewritten throughout and now uses the camtrapdp package for reading data packages
• readcamtrapDP renamed to readCamtrapDP (capitalisation in line with official name)
• more tolerant Camtrap DP import: missing vernacularNames are generated from scientific names and observation type; missing placename falls back to the deployment ID (with a warning); informative error if all timestamps fail to parse
• activity estimation with Camtrap DP data now uses only observations of type "event"

Improved displays and summary functions

• recordTable, recordTableIndividual & filterRecordTable now return an object of class "records" with dedicated print, [, summary, and dplyr_reconstruct methods
• cameraOperation now returns an object of class "camOp" with dedicated print, [, summary, and plot methods
• detectionHistory now returns an object of class "detHist" with dedicated print and [ methods
• readCamtrapDP now returns an object of class "cams_dp" with a dedicated print method
• camera tables contained in readCamtrapDP and simulateCamtrapData outputs are now of class "cams" with a dedicated print method
• internal function stripClass to remove added (S3) class and attributes

Other changes

• new vignette 6 introducing the surveyDashboard (with sample data)
• surveyDashboard: documentation expanded (new section on Bayesian priors, more details on model fitting challenges)
• new package dependencies: camtrapdp, checkmate, crayon, tibble (the latter two now direct rather than indirect dependencies)

Bugfixes

• surveyDashboard:
• fixed several reactivity issues (records not resetting when loading new Camtrap DP data with active filters; number of removed images not updating; broken model selection table)
• fixed error in export of covariate rasters
• assert validity of parameter inputs (prevents opening app when e.g. column names specified wrongly)
• fixed model selection table for ubms 1.2.9
• ubms models now uses 1 core by default (faster than 3 cores for short runs)
• plot_coef(): fixed colors of plot lines by significance level in community model plots
• fixed wrong color ramp being applied to the original rasters in spatial prediction plots
• more robust aggregation of the camera trap table (all columns checked first, clearer error messages)
• fixed ggplot2 warning by replacing ylab() with labs()