NEWS

WorldMapR 1.3.0 (2025-09-03)

dplyr is no longer an import for this package
Corrected a bug which caused the function to fail when an object named map_df0 was present in the local environment
dataset regions_ITBIH added
empty_editable_map function added

map_df0 is now saved as one of the dataset, meaning that it is not built from scratch every time a function is called. Because of this, rnaturalearth and rnaturalearthdata packages are not required to be imported anymore
Adjusted some label positions
Added the shadows option, to choose whether to print a shadow around country labels or not
Improved the UK_as_GB option in countrycoord_data

Added the internal function countrycoord_data, which substitutes geometries_data and incorporates modifications of the crs.
Because of the above, geometries_data is now deprecated, and might be removed in later releases. It is not used anymore in worldplot and worldplotCat
Added legend.position option to move or remove the legend
Added label.color option to change color of the country labels
Added label.size option to change the size of the country labels

Corrected a bug which caused the figures to be plotted twice
Default option for range value added
Possibility to specify a user-defined gradient continuous variables added
Option to modify the color for missing countries added
Option to automatically update coordinates limits when using different crs added

Added option to modify the coordinate reference system (crs argument)
Created vignette
Removed save functionality within the functions, as the plot object can be saved with various external methods now