NEWS.md

In andysouth/rworldmap: Mapping Global Data

Github development version (rworldmap 1.3-7)

01/02/2016 (rworldmap 1.3-6) CRAN submission

• in countriesCoarse changed borders Western Sahara to comply with the UN standard, update Somalia and remove Somaliland, which lacks international recognition. Thanks to Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner.
• changed default legend breaks to be displayed in data units (see addMapLegend(legendIntervals)). This means that if quantiles are used the colour ribbon is divided into portions sized in data units rather than an equal block for each quantile.
• improved transparency options
• documentation migrated to roxygen
• migrated code to Github
• various trivial changes to pass CRAN checks

19/3/14 (rworldmap 1.3-2)

• mapBars corrected longstanding bug allowing xlim,ylim to be set
• mapPies NAs are converted to zero to avoid errors

22/8/13 (rworldmap 1.3-1)

• added links to Google discussion group : http://groups.google.com/group/rworldmap

20/8/13 (rworldmap 1.02-6)

• modernising DESCRIPTION & NAMESPACE

30/6/13 (rworldmap 1.02-5)

• Refactoring input data checking for vector mapping functions.

25/3/13 (rworldmap 1.02-4)

• Improving country to grid conversions
• mapPies() fixed xlim ylim, thanks to Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner for spotting

22/2/13 (rworldmap 1.02-3)

• barplotCountryData added cex argument to change text size
• mapCountryData corrected bug introduced in 1.02-2
• countrySynonyms added 13 synonyms found in IARC globocan data
• getMap() changed ISO3 for Western Sahara in all maps from SAH to ESH

1/11/12 (rworldmap 1.02-2)

• mapCountryData changed so that if you pass it a vector of breaks (e.g. catMethod=c(1:6)) it doesn't change the number of colours even if all the values don't occur in the data
• isoToName for getting country names from iso codes
• French Guiana, correcting.

30/10/12 (rworldmap 1.02-1)

• mapBubbles added xlim, ylim args
• French Guiana added to countries maps by taking the polygon out of France (thanks to Rob Salguero-Gomez & Gordon Holtgrieve for spotting)
• French Guiana added to countryRegions
• Added line width option (lwd) for country boundaries to mapCountryData, mapBubbles, mapPies, mapBars, mapGriddedData, mapByRegion, mapHalfDegreeGridToCountries
• Added line width option (lwdSymbols) for symbols in mapBubbles and mapBars
• labelCountries() new function added to plot country names on a worldmap
• South Sudan ISO3 code changed to SSD from SDS in countries* data files
• countrySynonyms.rda added 13 new country synonyms used in world bank data
• mapGriddedData corrected bug with addBorders='coasts'
• mapGriddedData changed default borders to 'coarse'
• mapBubbles changes to default values to fit with Natural Earth Data
• mapPies bugs corrected and now copes with sPDF

05/10/2012 (rworldmap 1.02)

• rwmGetISO3.r removed test code after function def. that stopped installation, thanks to Brian Ripley
• countrySynonyms added extra synonyms

01/10/2012 (rworldmap 1.01)

• Changed country polygon boundaries to data derived from Natural Earth
• Added country synonym matching for user data
• countriesHigh : added access from getMap() to higher resolution vector boundaries in companion package rworldxtra
• countrySynonyms : added data file to aid in matching countries in user data to those in maps
• joinCountryData2Map : when using joinCode='NAME' option it matches synonyms
• joinCountryData2Map : Deprecated use of ?projection?
• mapBubbles : now copes with no nameZColour or nameZColour='blue' etc.
• mapCountryData stopped it crashing when given a categorical dataset
• mapCountryData added usePolypath=FALSE to plot commands to avoid polypath error, needs sp version >= 0.9-101
• coastsCoarse added a coasts only vector map from Natural Earth to replace reliance on maps package in mapGriddedData
• Changed vignette figures from pdf to png to reduce size
• Removed small bit of offending code from vignettes following email from Brian Ripley
• Moved this ChangeLog to main package folder and removed .txt from name

24/4/2012 (0.1310)

• Added this changelog to the inst/doc folder
• vignette source moved to vignettes folder as suggested at R2.14.0
• in vignettes word wrap issues in R code resolved.
• Added barplotCountryData()

26/2/2012 (0.1300)

• Built under R2.14, and using options to compress files
• Polygon holes in country maps fixed using rgeos package (thanks to Karl Ove Hufthammer for outlining how to solve this problem).

14/2/2011 (0.1211)

• removed Rplots.pdf from the inst/doc/ folder

18/12/2010 (0.121)

• added dependencies for fields, spam & maps

13/12/2010 (0.120)

• correcting problem with category colours in mapGriddedData()

30/8/2010 ?(0.110)

• There was a problem that eezMap.rda didn?t have a man page, I made the man page but removed both for now until I get permission from VLIZ to use it.

03/02/2010

• Added option to pass ?array? or ?matrix? to mapGriddedData
• Corrected bug in mapGriddedData(addBorders='coasts')

03/01/2010

• Initial submission.

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