Changes Made to the Package

Description

This page contains a list of recent changes made to the package, and known general problems.

Details

1. The map plotting option in lattice has been removed, along with the default values for alpha, d, centrelong and centrelat in the function call. These must now be set explicitly. (March 2003)
2. The function subcatalogue has been deleted. It is superseded by as.catalogue. (June 2003)
3. The function print.cat has been renamed to write.catalogue. (June 2003)
4. Fixed inconsistencies between generic and method functions. (June 2003)
5. The function c.cat has been renamed to c.catalogue providing a “combine” method for objects with class "catalogue". (June 2003)
6. c.catalogue: argument name has been changed to catname. (June 2003)
7. The function plot.subset has been moved to the ssEDA package. (June 2003)
8. subset.circle, subset.polygon, subset.rect, subset.sphere: argument na.rm added. Its effect has been described under ‘Details’ of the documentation of each function. (June 2003)
9. library.version: updated. (August 2003)
10. library.version: version above included a stray CR causing a syntax error. (September 2003)
11. Palliser Catalogue added. (September 2003)
12. as.catalogue modified to be compatible with R version 1.7.1. A list now has class "list". (October 2003)
13. ReadNZ, ReadPDE and ReadWellington have been deleted, now part of respective packages. (October 2003)
14. days1 and projection: links to functions in other packages in manual pages modified to include the package name. (November 2003)
15. Minor documentation formatting changes, mainly to use \dQuote and \sQuote. (January 2004)
16. summary.catalogue: gave a warning message if all values of depth were missing; fixed. (February 2004)
17. epi.circle: argument plotit removed. (February 2004)
18. Catalogue Read functions has been removed from this package, with each catalogue package containing its ``read'' function. (March 2004)
19. File ‘/exec/version.sh’ removed from package. (March 2004)
20. library.version: documentation mismatch with code corrected. (7 May 2004)
21. subset.polygon: PACKAGE="ssBase" has been added to the .Fortran("polyse", ...) call within the function. (7 May 2004)
22. Palliser, NZ55: in earlier package versions these datasets were read from a text file creating the rda file at the time data(Palliser) or data(NZ55) were ran. This method caused a syntax error in R 2.0. Now this file is created when the package is installed, similar to the catalogue packages. (22 Nov 2004)
23. summary.subset: syntax error in R 2.0 caused by multiple inequalities in an expression. A phantom() has been added to the initial if (plot == TRUE) statement. (22 Nov 2004)
24. subset.circle, subset.polygon, subset.sphere: documentation formatting changes to use \eqn. (16 Feb 2005)
25. arcdist: new function. (16 Feb 2005)
26. lattice: rearrange function code. (18 Feb 2005)
27. write.catalogue: writing loop eliminated, and use made of R functions format and formatC. (20 Feb 2005)
28. c.catalogue: function rewritten, user can now select a subset of variables to include. (20 Feb 2005)
29. subset.circle, subset.polygon, subset.rect, subset.sphere: documentation for arguments minday and maxday clarified. (April 2005)
30. days1, datetimes: clearer explanation on the manual pages of the difference between these functions and similar functions in the chron package. (29 April 2005)
31. In src/Makefile.win there were three occurrences of “$(RM) -f”, each of were replaced by “$(RM)”. The in-built definition for RM already contains the “-f”. (20 June 2005)
32. Package vignettes added. (13 Aug 2005)
33. days1, months1, years1: the chron package implemented a namespace in version 2.3-0. To call the chron function origin, one now needs chron:::origin; though here have replaced with attr(x, "origin"). (28 Nov 2005)
34. days1: error in example fixed (“1959” to “1969”). (28 Nov 2005)
35. More problems with Windows! New version of ‘src/Makefile.win’. (16 Dec 2005)
36. Modify ‘src/Makefile.win’ (missing tabs). (17 Dec 2005)
37. lattice: d included in output list. (4 May 2006)
38. File ‘R/NZ55.txt’ deleted, is in ‘src/NZ55.txt’. (12 May 2006)
39. File ‘R/[.datetimes.R’ renamed to ‘R/extract.datetimes.R’. (12 May 2006)
40. In ‘src/Makefile.win’ line containing DLLLIBS = -L$(RHOME)/lib -L$(RHOME)/src/gnuwin32 -lR deleted. (10 Jul 2007)
41. c.catalogue: arguments ... and recursive added for compatibility with generic function c. (2 Aug 2007)
42. The functions subset.rect, subset.circle, subset.polygon, and subset.sphere are deprecated and have been renamed to subsetrect, subsetcircle, subsetpolygon, and subsetsphere, respectively. Their names conflict with the generic R function subset. (5 Nov 2007)
43. subset.rect, subset.polygon, and subset.sphere: correct incorrect information in the deprecated warning message. (21 Nov 2007)

Future Developments

1. Make "datetimes" compatible with base software provided by R. Still insufficient flexibility in the chron functions.
2. Write a function subset.catalogue as a method for subset. It would involve subsetcircle, subsetpolygon, subsetrect, and subsetsphere.