Andrew Gene Brown

@rhijmans I am going to mark this PR as ready for review so you can close it if you are so inclined. I left it as a draft as I...

I still want to come up with a solution for making consistent plots with colors, labels and sorted legends regardless of which classes might exist in the full raster or...

Great points Jay. I think these tools are great to have as modular pieces--and probably that lower-level access can/should be preserved But to your the point of expanding/demonstrating these tools...

Updated reprex. 2 of 3 items from OP are resolved now after prior slab upgrades. ``` r library(aqp) #> This is aqp 2.0.3 data("jacobs2000", package="aqp") # same depth: properly errors...

> magical function action is best avoided. IMO it is not that magical if we have exported, documented functions as default arguments to do the operation vs. having it buried...

I would suggest merging this after CRAN release of 2.0.3

I think this is ready to merge

Thanks for review, just synced with master branch, assuming everything passes (aside pending fixes from #317) will proceed with merge

This is ready for review, and can be merged _after_ CRAN release of 2.0.3

It appears the "missing data" vignette build is failing due to hzdesgnname not being set for jacobs2000. Note to check/rebuild the rdas without `@sp` slot and make sure relevant metadata...