NEWS.md

In imedR: Guarded Evidence Synthesis for the Indian Microplastics Evidence Database

imedR 0.3.3

• Faster loading of the bundled tables: removing empty worksheet rows is now vectorised instead of subsetting row by row. Output is identical; loading all tables is roughly 18 times faster, which brings the imed_validate() example and the test suite well under CRAN time limits.
• Removed the unused gt package from Suggests.

imedR 0.3.2

• Removed single quotes around acronyms in DESCRIPTION.
• Added \value documentation (@return) to all exported functions.
• Added small executable examples to all exported functions.

imedR 0.3.1

Integrity patch

• Drops wholly empty worksheet-export rows at runtime; this removes one empty METHODS_QAQC row and one empty PROVENANCE row without changing scientific records.
• Preserves both genuine ST0064 size-method observations while deterministically disambiguating the second runtime identifier as SZ0064-02; scientific content is unchanged and the frozen IMED v1.0 workbook is not modified.
• Adds regression tests for these release-representation defects.
• Removes an unimported %>% dependency from grouped descriptive statistics.
• Fixes imed_check_size_window() so it reads the actual Operational_Reporting_Cutoff_um column; previously the check for records with neither an analytical lower limit nor an operational cutoff did not run.
• Documents all function arguments.
• No scientific abundance, method, coordinate, comparability, provenance content, or HOLD decision is changed.

Validation status

The test suite passes (27 tests, 0 failures). R CMD check --as-cran completed on win-builder (R 4.6.1, Windows) with no errors or warnings; the only note was "New submission".

imedR documentation built on Nov. 3, 2026, 5:08 p.m.