Changelog • vrtility

vrtility 0.4.0

vrt_save() gained bundle = TRUE to write a saved VRT alongside copies of every intermediate VRT it depends on, with paths rewritten relative to the output directory. The result survives wiping the VRT cache. Adding include_rasters = TRUE also copies local raster leaves into the bundle for full portability; remote sources (URLs, /vsicurl/, …) are detected and reported in a single warning (#110).

Removed usage of ::: on gdalraster internals; plotting helpers are now bundled directly in the package.
Vignette HTML output now uses self_contained: false to reduce tarball size.
Vignette images link to GitHub-hosted figures instead of bundling locally.
Expanded test coverage for cache management, assertions, band reordering, and multiband reduce functions.

Added vrt_plan() as a lightweight alternative to vrt_collect() that defers VRT creation for faster pipeline setup.
Added vrt_derived_block() for creating derived bands using muparser expressions (e.g., NDVI, EVI) directly within the VRT framework.
Added vrt_move_band() for reordering bands within VRT objects.
Added VRT connection string support (vrt://) for efficient sub-window reads via projwin.

Switched cookie file storage from ~/.cookies.txt to tools::R_user_dir("vrtility", "cache") for CRAN compliance.
Replaced rappdirs dependency with base R tools::R_user_dir().
Python environment settings now stored as package options instead of environment variables.
Improved error and warning messages using cli throughout the package.
Replaced \dontrun{} with \donttest{} in examples where appropriate.
Added @return documentation to all exported functions.
Added stac_coverage_filter() for filtering STAC results by spatial coverage of the area of interest.

Fixed hls_stac_query() silently returning NULL when max_cloud_cover was specified.
Fixed vrt_cache_destroy() using options() instead of getOption(), which returned a list instead of a character path.
Fixed v_assert_hls_catalog() validation logic that never returned a valid result.
Corrected COG creation options being dropped when using the gdalraster engine.