NEWS

ggcircular 0.2.0

Integrated the directional-dependence displays into ggcircular.
Added circular-linear helpers for density estimation, phase loom displays, circular topographies, statistical orbits and bootstrap orbit intervals.
Added circular-circular helpers for toroidal density estimation, toroidal topographies, toroidal flow displays, conditional ridges and bootstrap ridge intervals.
Added directional diagnostic scenarios, diagnostic atlases, classical unfolded comparisons, marginal support diagnostics, smoothing selection and independence lineups.
Added simulation helpers for cylindrical and toroidal examples.
Added experimental plotly-based 3D companions for circular and toroidal topographies.
Added near-tie diagnostics for conditional toroidal ridges while preserving the first-grid-maximum selection rule.
Corrected signed-angle wrappers so all observations contribute to toroidal topographies, flows and ridges.
Replaced seam-sensitive linear ridge bootstrap intervals with pointwise circular intervals.
Expanded the README and vignettes with executable conditional-display examples and practical marginal-support guidance.

The existing public API remains available.
New ggplot2 layers use the standard ggcircular convention aes(x = theta, y = response) or aes(x = theta, y = phi).
High-level plot_*() helpers are retained as shortcuts built from the new ggplot2 layers.
Experimental 3D helpers return plotly htmlwidgets and keep plotly in Suggests.
Prototype-only integration stubs are not included.

Added rose diagrams, circular density estimates, mean direction layers, circular scales, circular coordinates, movement helpers and simulated datasets.
Added circular summaries, confidence intervals, Rayleigh and Watson-Williams helpers, and theoretical circular distribution overlays.

Added angular model diagnostics and optional helpers for CircularRegression.
Added exploratory finite mixtures of von Mises distributions.
Added optional helpers for momentuHMM, spherical summaries and posterior circular draws.
Added repository support files for contributions, support and conduct.

Added a README with badges, examples and a package logo.
Added pkgdown reference pages and articles for the main workflows.
Added CRAN readiness notes to the README, validation vignette and cran-comments.md.

Added testthat coverage for angle utilities, summaries, ggplot2 layers, diagnostics, movement helpers, circular tests, spherical/posterior helpers and von Mises mixtures.
Added strict momentuHMM alignment checks to prevent silent truncation.
Added a strict hard-dependency CI profile with _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ set to false.

Advanced model diagnostics, von Mises mixtures and optional ecosystem integrations are experimental.
Automatic circular-density smoothing is heuristic.
Further validation is planned for the R Journal article workflow.