NEWS.md

In EarthSystemDiagnostics/grfxtools: An R package of tools to assist with various plotting tasks

grfxtools 0.5.1

• Added dependency on mapproj package (see #15).

grfxtools 0.5.0

• New function AddNorthArrow() to plot on base maps an arrow pointing towards north together with a label.
• New function Legend() which is a custom version of graphics::legend() introducing the option to have point symbols at both ends of legend lines.
• New function MinorTick() to add minor tick marks to an existing base plot.

grfxtools 0.4.2

• Bugfix to PlotPairwiseCorrelations replacing tidyr::gather with tidyr::pivot_longer

grfxtools 0.4.1

• In ggpolar() it is now possible to control the line widths of the land and continental outlines and of the latitude and longitude axes via the function parameters size and size.axes, respectively.

grfxtools 0.4.0

Update to ggpolar():

• North polar and segment plots use a new basemap from rnaturalearth, replacing the maptools map, which enables to toggle the plotting of political (country) borders via the new function parameter plot.political.boundaries and no longer requires the rgeos hack;
• for the sake of clarity, parameter country.outline.colour is renamed to land.outline.colour, since it generally addresses both the colour of the land surface outlines and the potentially plotted political boundaries;
• in addition, new examples are provided and the documentation is revised, also addressing #11.

grfxtools 0.3.2

Minor update for LabelAxis():

Default font now is always 1 (plain) instead of the current setting of par to avoid the opening of a new empty graphics device when no active devce is present (#10).

grfxtools 0.3.1

Update of ColorPal() function:

The function parameter options now clearly distinguish between setting the number of input colours for the palette and setting the number of (interpolated) return colours.

grfxtools 0.3.0

Several new functions added:

• Quartz() [for Mac OS users only]: wrapper for the quartz() device using per default a 4:3 aspect ratio for on-screen plotting or saving to a file and including the setting of default graphical parameters which are deliberately different from base R's settings to produce visually more appealing plots.
• Par(): function to set graphical parameters specified as its arguments via passing them on to a call to par(). The function's default settings are set to produce visually more appealing plots compared to base R's default settings.
• ErrorBars(): function to add error bars to an existing point plot.
• PlotStamp(): function to add session information to an existing base plot: script name, date of plot creation, etc., placed in the upper right corner of the plot, so that for later reference you know when and how you created the plot.
• LabelAxis(): function to format nice axis labels involving common math expressions for label and units.
• ColorPal(): wrapper function to quickly obtain a colour palette from the ColorBrewer 2.0 collection for use in standard plots, image plots, or filled contour plots.

grfxtools 0.2.0

Changes for a proper and more self-contained package:

• Consistent use of :: syntax to call functions from base and other packages to remove unnecessary function or package imports into the NAMESPACE.
• rgeos is now only a suggested package to avoid problems with external libraries needed on Linux systems.
• The wrld_simpl dataset is now an internal dataset in the package to render unnecessary the full import of the maptools package into the grxftools NAMESPACE.
• Use of rlang .data pronoun to avoid R CMD check notes.
• Use of ascii escape character in ggpolar() to avoid R CMD check warning.
• Update of function documentations and changes to adhere to style guide.

grfxtools 0.1.0

• Initial package version with number and scope of the functions incl. their documentation identical to their original versions in deprecated package 'ecustools' which they were a part of ('ecustools' main branch as of 2020-11-20).

EarthSystemDiagnostics/grfxtools documentation built on Aug. 5, 2023, 1:43 p.m.