Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this
file.
glossa (development version)
glossa 1.2.0
Added
- Added support for tuning the number of trees in the sum-of-trees
formulation of BART and the end-node shrinkage prior parameter to
control overfitting (12/06/2025).
- Resolution harmonization is now implemented for environmental layers
by aggregating to the coarsest resolution, complementing the existing
extent and CRS harmonization (10/06/2025).
Fixed
- Resolved a UI issue introduced in version 1.1.0 that prevented users
from selecting thinning options (28/06/2025).
glossa 1.1.0
New features
- Added support for spatial block and temporal block cross-validation.
Spatial block size can be determined manually or using residual or
predictor autocorrelation (27/05/2025).
- Continuous Boyce Index (CBI) and Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) are
now computed for each model based on fitted values and in
cross-validation (27/05/2025).
- Now three different pseudo-absence generation can be used: random
background, target-group, and delimited by a buffer around presences
(21/05/2025).
- A new configuration file including the input files and settings is
now automatically created when exporting the results for better
reproducibility (15/05/2025).
- Users can now upload a file of raster timestamps to correctly align
irregular or custom time series with occurrence data. This prevents
mismatches between occurrence timestamps and raster layers when temporal
coverage is not sequential or has a different starting point
(11/04/2025).
- Categorical variables can now be included as predictor variables
using raster layers with factors (25/11/2024).
Minor improvements and bug
fixes
- Added confirmation dialog to close the app to avoid accidental
clicks on the “Close App” button (27/05/2025).
- Improved error handling so analysis does not stop if any of the
species drops an error (15/05/2025).
- Fixed reactivity and selection reset issues when updating plot
inputs in the report tab (e.g. functional response plot)
(02/04/2025).
- Fixed the broken link in the Documentation button on the GLOSSA home
page (31/03/2025).
- Fixed an issue where users could upload
.tif files but
not .tiff files, which are used interchangeably
(31/03/2025).
- Added support for handling zipped files from macOS by ignoring
hidden system files (31/03/2025).
- Fixed an issue where accessing factor level labels assumed the
column was named “label”. Now uses the second column (31/03/2025).
- Warning messages appear when
NA values are present in
factor levels. Those levels are ignored in the analysis
(31/03/2025).
- Allow a numerical tolerance of 1e-7 when evaluating resolution
equality between provided raster layers (31/03/2025).
- Updated functions to support raster files with metadata (e.g.,
.xml) for declaring categorical variables or factors
(25/11/2024).
- Enhanced handling of mixed continuous and categorical datasets
during layer reading and processing (25/11/2024).
- Scaling now applies only to continuous variables, with categorical
variables excluded and appended untransformed (25/11/2024).
- Improved functional response calculations to handle categorical
predictors, filtering out levels with no observations (25/11/2024).
- Added functionality to compute the mode across time layers for
categorical variables, preserving factor levels, when computing the
average environmental scenario (25/11/2024).
- Changed exported file names to avoid Windows file path length errors
when unzipping. Also, changed extension from
.csv to
.tsv (26/05/2025). The following naming adjustments were
made: suitable_habitat -> sh,
native_range -> nr,
cross_validation -> cross_val,
functional_responses -> func_res,
variable_importance -> var_imp,
confusion_matrix -> mod_diag,
fit_layers -> fit, projections
-> proj.
glossa 1.0.0