Changelog • rgplates

rgplates 0.5.0 - 2024-09-04

CRAN release: 2024-09-06

- “Spread That Seafloor”

Added

Support for the reconstruction of SpatRaster class objects (package terra). The terra extension is now added as a suggested package.
The velocities() function to calculate plate tectonic velocities from the GWS. Currently only the online method is supported. The interface is similar to reconstruct(), the character-method e.g. velocities("static_polygons") returns velocities on a given feature set.

Changed

Updated the gws object to version v1.1

Known issues

Velocities on topological plates are not yet available.

Missing

Vectorization for multiple ages in velocities()

rgplates 0.4.2 - 2024-08-21

Interim release (not archived/published on the CRAN).

Fixed

Bug with the offline method: GPlates 2.5.0 under Windows could not be reached because the default path resolved in the gplates.exe.local file.

rgplates 0.4.1 - 2024-08-19

CRAN release: 2024-08-20

- “The Plates Be Driftin’”

Added

The checkgws(), getgws() and setgws() functions that allow the customization of the remote location of the GPlates Web Service.

Changed

Docs updated to reflect repo transfer to https://github.com/gplates

rgplates 0.4.0 - 2024-02-02

CRAN release: 2024-02-03

- “Wondering Continents”

Added

New suggested package ‘httr2’ to be used with the online method (see changed), which allows the customized usage of HTTP requests.
The from argument for reconstruct(), providing explicit support for forward reconstruction. The argumentation from!=0, age=0 (default), calculates present-day coordinates of past coordinates. The argumentation from!=0, age!=0 calculates shifted positions of coordinates at different times (age) than their original (from).
Support for missing values (NA) for the point reconstructions, which no longer trigger an error, but are rather propagated through the pipeline as missing values.
The warn argument of reconstruct(), allowing users to switch off warnings that indicate that paleocoordinates are off the partitioning polygons.
The anchor argument of reconstruct(), allowing users to change the anchor plate for the online submodule. This is necessary for toggling the paleomagnetic reference frame of the "TorsvikCocks2017" model in the GWS.
The former plateperiod (now: validtime) argument is usable with the GPlates Web Service and the online reconstruction method.

Changed

Online reconstruction method (with GWS) now uses the HTTP POST method for points and sends coordinates as form data. Internals were changed accordingly. This allows the processing of theoretically unlimited number of coordinates.
Online reconstruction method (with GWS) is no longer bound to integer ages.
Point reconstruction results (matrix and data.frame objects) now consistently have the column names paleolong and paleolat for past coordinates, and long and lat for present-day coordinates.
The plateperiod argument was renamed to validtime for better semantic compatibility with the GPlates Web Service.

Fixed

Online reconstruction was not working when the package was not attached due to issue of the checking of the valid input.

Deleted

The ‘chunk’ argument of reconstruct() was deprecacted and is scheduled for omission.

rgplates 0.3.2 - 2023-09-06

CRAN release: 2023-09-06

Fixed

Bug fix for windows paths in the offline reconstruction methods

rgplates 0.3.1 - 2023-08-09

CRAN release: 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

CRAN release: 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

CRAN release: 2023-03-07

Added

the mapedge() function
function website assets

Changed

example data switched to PaleoMAP v3

rgplates 0.2.0 - 2022-09-19

CRAN release: 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

CRAN release: 2021-05-18

Changed

Bug fix for spaces in usernames on Windows machines.

rgplates 0.1.0 - 2021-05-09

CRAN release: 2021-05-18

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