Change log of the R package ‘rgplates’

rgplates 0.3.2 - 2023-09-06

Fixed

• Bug fix for windows paths in the offline reconstruction methods

rgplates 0.3.1 - 2023-08-09

Added

• The gws data object that includes details about the reconstructable features in the GPlates Web services
• Routines to check user entry to the GPlates Web Service with the gws Object.
• The platemodel class now accepts feature descriptions as a data.frame. This allows the inclusion of valid age ranges for the reconstruction of feature collections.
• Simon Williams as contributor, as his code was the basis for accessing the GWS
• import of utils::data()

Fixed

• Minor bug that did not allow topological features to be reconstructed.
  
• Minor bug that occurred when enumerate=FALSE and cases when the target age included NAs
• An error that occurred when plateperiod=TRUE, the target age went beyond the duration of the plates and no coordinates were returned by the GPlates Desktop Application.

rgplates 0.3.0 - 2023-06-29

Added

• The platemodel class now accepts multiple feature collections. These can be recontructed by setting the x argument of recontruct().

Changed

• The interface of the reconstruct() function now matches that of the GPlates web service. Use "static_polygons" instead of "plates".
• The plateperiod argument of reconstruct() now defaults to TRUE
• Documentation to reflect models avialble through the GPlates web service
• Changed default method of online reconstruction to "MERDITH2021"

Removed

• unnecessary imports from utils

rgplates 0.2.1 - 2023-03-08

Added

• the mapedge() function
• function website assets

Changed

• example data switched to PaleoMAP v3

rgplates 0.2.0 - 2022-09-19

Added

• Package now depends on the sustainable ‘sf’-based interface to GPLates
• Defense against non-integer reconstruction dates for the online method.
• Support for ‘sf’ type objects for the online reconstruction method
• defense against decimal ages for online reconstruction method.
• Support for all ’Spatial*’ objects (sp) in the offline reconstruction method
• The ‘gmeta’ argument of the local reconstruction submodule and sf output.

Changed

• All spatial outputs now default to sf instead of Spatial* types
• online reconstruction method now suggests the ‘geojsonsf’ extension package for reading in features

Removed

• dependency of deprecated ‘rgdal’ extension
• Support for polygons for the online reconstruction method.

Known issues

• Matrix-based reconstructinos do not accept missing values.

rgplates 0.1.0 - 2021-05-11

Changed

• Bug fix for spaces in usernames on Windows machines.

rgplates 0.1.0 - 2021-05-09

Added

• material copied over from chronosphere 0.4.1
• reconstruct(model=NULL) argumentation.

Changed

• platemodel data example is manually extracted
• reconstruct example replaced with model=NULL