NEWS

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palaeoverse 1.4.0.9000

New features

• Added tax_certainty() (#109)
• Added group argument to tax_range_time() and tax_range_strat() and improved plotting (#120)
• Made bin durations more even and added n_bins option in time_bins() (#131)
• Added autofit argument to axis_geo() which, when enabled, automatically adjusts the sizes of individual interval labels to fit within the interval boxes (#21)
• Added title argument to axis_geo() which can be used to add a title to the axis with the timescale (#133)
• Increased efficiency and reduced hackiness of group_apply() (#135)
• Downloads related to the palaeorotate() function are now retried if they fail (#137)

Other changes

• tax_range_time() and tax_range_strat() now reset row names of the output (#120).

palaeoverse 1.4.0 (2024-10-14)

New features

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

Bug fixes

• Fixed point plotting bug in tax_range_strat()

palaeoverse 1.3.0 (2024-04-16)

New features

• 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)

Bug fixes

• Fix superfluous columns in palaeorotate() (#110)

palaeoverse 1.2.1 (2023-08-17)

New features

• Added ability to use custom bins for tax_expand_time() (#94)

Bug fixes

• Fixed handling of multiple models in palaeorotate() (#92)
• Fixed custom ticks behavior for axis_geo_phylo()

palaeoverse 1.2.0 (2023-04-18)

New features

• time_bins() updated to enable users to call geological time scales from Macrostrat
• Removed deeptime dependency
• Updated font colors in GTS2012 and GTS2020 based on background luminance
• Added two tutorial vignettes (#31)

Bug fixes

• 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)
• 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)
• Fixed a tax_range_space() bug for custom column names

palaeoverse 1.1.1 (2023-02-16)

New features

• 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 (2023-01-12)

New features

• 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)

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 (2022-10-31)

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