NEWS.md

In TrenchR: Tools for Microclimate and Biophysical Ecology

TrenchR (development version)

Version numbers follow Semantic Versioning.

TrenchR 1.1.1

2023-09-10

First major release

• Edited parameters and units for consistency.
• Updated some equations in response to reviewer suggestions.
• No backwards compatibility is ensured.
• Added a citation file.

GitHub Actions

• Builds now occur on GitHub
• Includes package build and check across platforms, test coverage, pkgdown site build

Website auto-build

• No need to render locally and push

Extensive unit testing

• Virtually 100 percent coverage

Documentation via bibTeX and Rdpack

• To allow for significant amount of citations and cross-references

Package preparation

• significant codebase edits for tidying and streamlining in advance of CRAN submission.

Argument edits

• Standardizing arguments across functions

Function names

• Articulated function names
• For example,
• surface_area_from_mass replaces sa_from_mass to align with spelled out names across other functions
• surface_area_from_length replaces sa_from_length to align with spelled out names across other functions
• proportion_silhouette_area replaces prop_silhouette_area
• proportion_silhouette_area_shapes replaces prop_silhouette_area_shapes

TrenchR documentation built on Sept. 14, 2023, 1:07 a.m.