NEWS

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palaeoverse 1.4.0 (2024-10-14)

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

palaeoverse 1.3.0 (2024-04-16)

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

palaeoverse 1.2.1 (2023-08-17)

• Fixed handling of multiple models in palaeorotate (#92)
• Fixed custom ticks behavior for axis_geo_phylo
• Added ability to use custom bins for tax_expand_time (#94)

palaeoverse 1.2.0 (2023-04-18)

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

palaeoverse 1.1.1 (2023-02-16)

• 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)

Updates

• 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)

Minor 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.