NEWS.md
In palaeoverse: Prepare and Explore Data for Palaeobiological Analyses

Development version

Several updates to palaeorotate
Mantle reference frame models removed
TorsvikCocks2017 model added
Added updated reconstruction files (1 myr resolution)
Fixed point plotting bug in tax_range_strat
Added lat_bins_area (#114)
Replaced lat_bins with lat_bins_degrees
Made all functions tibble-friendly (#118)

palaeoverse 1.3.0

Added plot customisability to tax_range_time (#99)
Update palaeorotate to handle updates with GPlates API (#112)
New function to create stratigraphic range plots, tax_range_strat (#97)
Added age arguments (max_ma/min_ma) to bin_time (#106)
Added warning to bin_time (#104)
Improved link accessibility (#88)
Fix superfluous columns in palaeorotate (#110)

palaeoverse 1.2.1

Fixed handling of multiple models in palaeorotate (#92)
Fixed custom ticks behavior for axis_geo_phylo
Added ability to use custom bins for tax_expand_time (#94)

palaeoverse 1.2.0

time_bins updated to enable users to call geological time scales from Macrostrat
Fixed minor documentation error in tax_range_time
Fixed unnecessary column output in palaeorotate (#78)
Fixed binding issues with the "point" method in palaeorotate for some specific datasets (#78)
Removed deeptime dependency
Updated font colors in GTS2012 and GTS2020 based on background luminance
Fixed multi-model call in palaeorotate for the "point" method which did not return all requested model coordinates (#82)
Fixed an erroneous entry in interval_key (#84)
Added two tutorial vignettes (#31)
Fixed a tax_range_space bug for custom column names

palaeoverse 1.1.1

palaeoverse now requires deeptime (>= 1.0.0)
Added additional test to catch when Zenodo is offline (palaeorotate)
Added a coords argument to the tax_range_space function to control whether coordinates are returned
palaeorotate documentation updated to reflect updates to GPlates Web Service (#74)
MULLER2022 plate rotation model made available in palaeorotate (#74)
model argument in palaeorotate now allows multiple models to be called - palaeogeographic uncertainty is now calculated on the requested models
max distance calculations in palaeorotate's uncertainty functionality updated to use geosphere::distGeo

palaeoverse 1.1.0

Updates

Added package-level documentation function
bin_time now accepts user-defined probability function (#20)
lat_bins now accepts user-defined latitudinal range (#23)
bin_lat now has functionality for handling boundary occurrences (#23)
tax_unique now supports arbitrary higher taxonomic levels (#52)
time_bins now supports user input dataframes (#19)
tax_unique now supports returning the unique names appended to the input dataframe (#51)

Minor bug fixes

Updated palaeorotate reconstruction files to use an hexagonal equal-area grid (#59)
Added error handling for when GPlates and Zenodo is offline
Added default value for the round argument in palaeorotate
Resolved issue with chunk processing in palaeorotate
Fixed the behavior of time_bins(scale = "GTS2012") (#62)
Fixed tests when suggested packages were not installed (#64)
Removed dependence of tests on divDyn and deeptime (#64)
Fixed tax_range_time example (#60)
Fixed look_up issue when handling pre-Cambrian occurrences (#63)
tax_unique now retains homonyms from different higher taxonomic groups (#50)
Fixed axis_geo for phylogenies (#68)

palaeoverse 1.0.0

First full release of the palaeoverse R package. The package provides functions to help streamline analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility.