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Change log of the R package 'chronosphere'

chronosphere 0.6.1 - 2023-08-17

Changed

• The examples included in the package were malformatted. The examples were corrected.

chronosphere 0.6.0 - 2023-08-14

Changed

• IMPORTANT: Dataset identifier coordinates were changed: dat -> src, var -> ser. This reflects changes of the database that were necessary so formal variables can be introduced.

chronosphere 0.5.0 - 2023-05-23

Added

• the configure() function to support setting of global variables: curl, timeout and remote (debugging)
• 'tinytest' - dependencies
• 'curl' as suggest, curl support for datasets() and fetch()
• new example data to show the use of datadir

Removed

• plate tectonic reconstruction-related functionality to package 'rgplates'
• Spatial and RasterArrays refactored into package 'via'
• shaper() function, color palettes() to 'restools' (to be published soon)

chronosphere 0.4.1 - 2021-04-16 (build 80)

Added

• added the platemodel example to the package's files
• fixed wrong example

chronosphere 0.4.0 - 2020-10-18 (build 79 - CRAN submission take 2)

Added

• vignette url fix

chronosphere 0.4.0 - 2020-10-18 (build 78 - Initial CRAN submission)

Added

• minor fixes

chronosphere 0.4.0 (build 77) - 2020-10-13

Added

• package collate in DESCRIPTION
• The SpatialArray class is added to the package, mimicking RasterArrays for vector objects.
• The SpatialList class is added, to be used in the SpatialStack.
• The XArray class-union is made for the efficient generalization of methods shared by RasterArray and SpatialArray. Shared methods are impplemented.
• the spTransform() function is implemented for SpatialStacks and SpatialArrays.
• the apply() function gained the MARGIN=NULL submethod. THis submethod is useful for the iteration of functions for every XArray item.
• The mapedge() function for the quick calculation of map edges in non-equirectangular projections.
• the 'coasts' data demo object of the PaleoMAP Paleocoastlines
• types() generic and SpatialArray-method is added.

Changed

• Multiple RasterArray methods are now generalized for the XArray and are no longer specific to RasterArrays.
• vignette was renamed from chronos.Rmd to chronosphere.Rmd, references to 'clim' were removed and uses 'coasts' now instead

Removed

• the reporting tools added in build 75 are removed as they require further testing
• the 'clim' demo object was removed to decrease the size of the package

Known issues/missing features

• SpatialArrays and SpatialStacks do not have a default plotting method yet.
• The apply() function has limit utility on SpatialArrays.
• rare issues with res/ver defaulting, use explicit ver and res to ensure correct download

chronosphere 0.3.1 (build 76) - 2020-09-23

Added

• Forced UTF-8 encoding for the registry tables
• added API call to chronosphere object attributes.

chronosphere 0.3.1 (build 75) - 2020-09-20

Added

• create_metadata() and report() to create data report based on the pbdb download
• generate_bib() and related functions to generate bibliography for report
• capitalize() to capitalise strings - for formatting purposes
• pkg_file() to access files within the package
• template files to inst/rmarkdown/

chronosphere 0.3.1 (build 74) - 2020-08-20

Added

• The SpatialLinesDataFrame-method of the reconstruct() function.

chronosphere 0.3.1 (build 73) - 2020-08-07

Added

• The reference() and info() functions. The new reference() function is now used within fetch().

Fixed

• minor bugs.

chronosphere 0.3.0 (build 72) - 2020-07-30

Added

• The 'plateperiod' argument was accidentally deleted during update to build 69, now it is live again.

chronosphere 0.3.0 (build 71) - 2020-07-14

Changed

• Fixed forced download of registry table when datadir was given and data were already present on disk/storage device

chronosphere 0.3.0 (build 70) - 2020-06-11

Added

• datasets() function gained the 'dat', 'master' and 'greetings' arguments. The default setting of the function only downloads the list of datasets (dat) and variables (var). Setting the 'dat' argument to a character entry will download the list of all archives from that dataset. Setting the master argument to 'master=TRUE' will download a list of all archives, which is expected to be very long in the near future. The argument 'greetings=TRUE' will display a reminder that additional versions and resolutions are available.
• the downloaded objects now have chronosphere attributes. These record the accession information used previously, which allows the repetition of function call, if necessary - including changes.
• fetch() can return the function call, using call=TRUE. This can be either an expression or a terminal message, depending on the settings of call.expr=TRUE/FALSE.
• fetch() can be used with an already downloaded the chronosphere-object to either redownload it, or get its download function call.
• fetch() can be used to return multiple variables from the same dataset. These will be concatenated into a list, unless they are RasterArrays, in which case fetch() will try to cbind() them
• the extent() method of the RasterArray class
• the server log log.csv is only checked once per session.

Removed

• The dataindex() deprecated placeholder function was removed. Use datasets() instead.
• previous updates to reconstruct()

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 69) - 2020-03-11

Changed

• reconstruct - defense against bad ages
• rotationModels() and validCoords() added

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 68) - 2020-03-11

Changed

• reconstruct - defense against bad long/lat

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 67) - 2020-03-06

Changed

• bug fixes

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 66) - 2020-03-05

Added

• new method extract('RasterArray', 'matrix')
• by=NULL is added as to extract('RasterArray', 'data.frame')

Changed

• bug fix of newbounds() when col was given.
• by=NULL is the new default of extract('RasterArray', 'data.frame'). The function was redesigned to accomodate n-dimensional RasterArray input.
• bug fix of dimnames('RasterArray')

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 65) - 2020-02-20

Added

• plateperiod argument of the reconstruct() function

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 64) - 2020-02-20

Changed

• mapplot overlap offset fixed

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 63) - 2020-02-18

Added

• rotate-method for the RasterArray class

chronosphere 0.2.2 (build 62) - 2020-02-17

Added

• zzz.R with chronosphere package help file

Changed

• the dataindex() function was renamed to datasets()

chronosphere 0.2.1 (build 61) - 2020-02-14

Changed

• mapplot() coordinate reset fixed
• IPCC palettes added

chronosphere 0.2.1 (build 60) - 2020-02-12

Changed

• corrected documentation problems

chronosphere 0.2.1 (build 59) - 2020-01-27

Added

• support for shapefile fetching

Changed

• fetch() defaults to the coarsest resolution (highest res entry, new default is res=NULL)

chronosphere 0.2.1 (build 58) - 2020-01-12

Added

• the nums(), colnums() and rownums() functions
• the ... argument to fetch to reach variable-specific loading options

Changed

• Fixed issue with offline reconstruction method (one entry in an age with enumerate = FALSE)

chronosphere 0.2.0 (build 57) - 2019-12-11 (CRAN initial submission, take 3)

Changed

• replaced all occurrences of T and F with TRUE and FALSE respectively
• on.exit statements for mapplot() and showPal()
• RasterArray constructor now works for stacks that do not have the same length as the dim product (with warning)
• Fixed bug with colnames and rownames assignment
• t() copies colnames and rownames attributes
• Raster variable loading is now done with R code provided by the server
• renamed NEWS file to NEWS.md

chronosphere 0.2.0 (build 56) - 2019-12-03 (CRAN initial submission, take 2)

Added

• return value documentation for all functions
• on.exit() statements where options and par are changed.

Changed

• description field in DESCRIPTION
• LazyData is set to false
• usage entries for 'dems' and 'clim'

chronosphere 0.2.0 (build 55) - 2019-11-29 (CRAN initial submission)

Added

• support for NAs in the RasterArray constructor and defenses
• 'clim' data object
• bug fix for the apply() RasterArray method

Changed

• [[ of RasterArrays now wrap output in a RasterArray by default.
• reconstruct() function's local submodule no longer returns coordinates for points that are situated on plates that did not exist on the at reconstruction date (matrix method returns NA coordinates, Sp methods omit)

chronosphere documentation built on Aug. 17, 2023, 5:08 p.m.