ReLTER: An Interface for the eLTER Community (v3.0)

some functions were deprecated: get_site_MODIS, get_site_ODS, get_ilter_, get_network_, get_sos_*, and produce_zenodo_record;

These were replaced by a new function get_site_EcoDataCube;

Dependency on the older raster package was removed, and terra was used instead;

Vignettes and documentation were improved;

Rarely used packages were removed to reduce the number of dependencies (e.g., purrr);

All map plots were standardized to use leaflet (requires leaflet >= 2.1.1);

Several functions were revised to make them more readable and concise (e.g., produce_network_points_map and produce_site_map);

Dependencies were analyzed across all functions, and their number was reduced accordingly. For this purpose, a summary table was created (see Google Spreadsheet packages_vs_functions) showing the overall number of packages and their usage by function;

Packages used only a few times (≤ 2) were removed, favoring base functions or functions already widely used in the package;

Installation requirements were revised by evaluating which packages should not be mandatory at install time. This was achieved by:

@seealso tags were used (e.g., @seealso[tidyr::nest()]) instead of @importFrom to indicate usage without forcing package loading;

Packages were moved from the Imports to the Suggests section in the DESCRIPTION file;

Package availability was checked dynamically with requireNamespace("<package_name>", quietly = TRUE);

Direct calls were replaced with wrappers to avoid package loading, e.g., unnest_fx <- getNamespace("tidyr", "unnest") and then unnest_fx(cols = c(id)).

Cheatsheets were created to provide users with quick references to the main functionalities of the package

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