metR 0.18.0

New features

• ReadNetCDF() can now subset based on dimension indices instead of dimension values. This makes it possible to read "the first 10 timesteps" or "the last 10 timesteps" without needing to know which dates they correspond to and how many timesteps are in total.

metR 0.17.0

Bug fixes

• Longitude scales now properly pass the trans/transform argument.

metR 0.16.0

New features

• EOF()'s rotate argument now will take a function to apply to the EOF loadings. rotate = TRUE is still supported but deprecated and will default to using function(x) stats::varimax(x, normalize = FALSE).

• Contour functions gain a proj.latlon to decide if the projection needs to go to latlon coordinates or to projected coordinates.

Breaking changes

• The GetSMNData() function is defunct. The functionality was a hack and hard to maintain and it's also very specific and should be out of scope for a general package.
• The trans argument of scales has been renamed to transform following ggplot2's change.
• scale_mag() internals are now much simpler and inherits all the functionality from common continuous scales. (thanks @teunbrand for the suggestion, #186)
• The step computed variable in geom_streamline() now goes from 0 to the total number of steps instead of from negative half to positive half.

metR 0.15.0

New features

• The contour functions gain a clip argument to only show contours in an area defined by a polygon.
• The kriging argument of the contour functions now can be a numeric to control de number of pixels used.
• Documentation of FitWave() and friends improved (#184, @pascaloettli).

Breaking changes

• The proj argument in geom_contour_fill() and friends now operate over the isolines returned by the isoband package. This might break code that used a custom function to proj.

Bug Fixes

• Guides are compatible with the new versions of ggplot2 (#117 and #185, @teunbrand).
• Contour functions will work even if OutDec is not ".".

metR 0.14.1

Breaking Changes

• The DivideTimeseries() function is now defunct.

New Features

• FitLm() gains a new intercept argument that allows you to remove the intercept term that is automatically added.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes error in Laplacian() when computing the laplacian of a single variable. (#170, Thanks @pascaloettli)
• Removes dependencies on raster and gdal packages.

metR 0.14.0

New Features

• Not really a new feature per se, but all geoms now support the new linewidth aesthetic. geom_relief() and geom_shadow() now don't have a size aesthetic, since they shouldn't have had it anyway.
• The value of the maximum vector magnitude in scale_mag() is now chosen to be a "pretty" number close to the maximum. This will prevent guides with many unnecesary decimal places (thanks, @PanfengZhang #161).

Bug Fixes

• Documents the correct default expand value in sale_x_longitude() and friends (thanks, @tamas-ferenci, #167).
• Fixes inconsistencies in generic methods.

metR 0.13.0

New features

• The new function Smooth2D() smooths a 2D field (hence the name). There are two smoothing methods. smooth_svd() computes the SVD of the field and reconstructs it keeping only the leading values that ensures a maximum variance lost. smooth_dct() computes the Discrete Cosine Transform of the field and sets a proportion of the components to zero.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in geom_streamline() when plotting multiple fields on the same panel.

• Fixes a bug with GetTopography() on Windows.

• Updates documentation to use valid HTML5 per CRAN's new format.

• Fixes the "The following aesthetics were dropped during statistical transformation" warning for contours.

• Removes ReadNetCDF() file and URL checking because it didn't work in some cases.
  (#164, thanks @pascaloettli)

Breaking changes

• Due to the udunits2 package being orphaned, ReadNetCDF() not longer uses it to parse dates and times. The homebrewed parser might be more limited, and the wild variety of netCDF files in the wild makes it hard to fully test. Please report any issues you have!

metR 0.12.0

New Features

• Adds example of scale_y_level() (@paocorrales, #153).

• ReadNetCDF() now should parse times correctly even if the use non-standard calendars.
  This now makes udunits2 and PCICt required to parse time.

• Arrays returned by ReadNetCDF(…, out = "array") gain a "dimvalues" attribute which is analogous to dimnames but has the correct types (dates are dates, numerics are numerics, etc...).

• EOF() gains a new engine argument to chose the function to compute the singular value decomposition.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed wrong sdev component in EOF() when using base::svd() in some cases.
• seasonally() now returns a Date object even if the input is datetime. This avoids issues when the time component of the input was not all the same.
• Fixed a bug in ImputeEOF() in which the algorithm tried to compute 0 EOFs.

metR 0.11.0 - Cold front

New Features

• geom_contour2() gains the ability to draw --and leave space for-- labels! This is finally proper labelling support without having to use a different geom (geom_text_contour()). Thanks to the isoband package for this.

• Following isoband's naming convention, the family of functions that decide where to place labels have been renamed as label_placer_ and the corresponding argument is now label.placer. The label_placement_ family of functions will be deprecated in future releases.

metR 0.10.0 - Mesoscale convective system

New Features

• discretised scales now work better when passing user-supplied limits.

• New functions to use the International Standard Atmosphere to get height from pressure and vice versa, as well as to use as secondary axis.
  See ?standard_atmosphere.

• scale_y_level() and scale_x_level() now print more breaks by default.
  These functions will probably use this transformation instead of the reverse log transformation in a future release.

• Translation!
  Thanks to @MichaelChirico priceless guidance, metR messages are now translatable and already translated to Spanish.
  If you are using R in a Spanish locale you should be getting messages and error in Spanish.
  Partial translation to Portuguese is also included.

• During the process of translating messages, many messages were improved and made more consistent.

• New Function ResidLm() that returns the residuals of a linear fit.

• New function Detrend() that, you guessed it, returns a (linearly) detrended version of the input vector.

• In ReadNetCDF(), the "vars" argument now can take a function. (#142)

• Discretised scales now support user-defined breaks.

Bugfixes

• seasonally() result will be on the 15th of the centre month of each season instead of on the 1st. This makes the date more representative of the time span and also solves a bug in which dates on the 31st would return NA. This is a potentially breaking change.
• ReadNetCDF() doesn't fail when reading variables with no dimensions (thanks to @paocorrales, #141).