futureheatwaves 1.0.2.9000

• Add a function to create interactive leaflet maps to explore relationship between study cities and associated climate model grid points for each climate model.
• Change so if user selects “n” when prompted to allow gen_hw_set to write files locally, the function returns NULL rather than an error, along with a message explaining the result.
• Improve memory management for some of the functions. Some functions write to global objects. In previous versions, the functions also returned what they were writing to the global objects. However, this is unnecessary, so these functions have been changed to return NULL and so use less memory.
• Change to use fread from data.table instead of read.csv to read in climate data from csv.
• Change to have more general column names for output dataset (e.g., mean.var rather than mean.temp and mean.seasonal.var rather than mean.summer.temp), so results make more sense if using the package for something other than heat waves (e.g., severe air pollution episodes)
• Parameter input_metric in gen_hw_set removed to make the package more generalizable to variables other than temperature.
• Add capability to identify and characterize periods below a certain temperature (e.g., for “cold waves”)
• Add new vignette “Starting from netCDF” to provide more guidance in preparing climate model output netCDF files to use with this package

futureheatwaves 1.0.2

• Add code so that package can process climate projections that include Feb. 29 or Feb. 30 (it defaults the start day and month of those heat waves to be Mar. 1). (Note: If there is a heatwave that starts on Feb. 29 in a non-leap year and only lasts two days, you may get an error. I think this will be a very rare case, but please email the package maintainer if you experience this problem.)

futureheatwaves 1.0.1

• Fixed a bug in the C++ function to identify heatwaves. Originally, this function passed two integer vectors into NumericVector Rcpp classes. This occassionally caused a crash on some operating systems related to a call to coerceToReal. The function now passes these two integer vectors into IntegerVector Rcpp classes.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.