Change log of the R package ’rgplates

[0.2.0] - 2021-05-11 (build 4)

Added

• Package now depends on the sustainable ‘sf’-based interface to GPLates
• Defense against non-integer reconstruction dates for the online method.
• Support for ‘sf’ type objects for the online reconstruction method
• defense against decimal ages for online reconstruction method.
• Support for all ’Spatial*’ objects (sp) in the offline reconstruction method
• The ‘gmeta’ argument of the local reconstruction submodule and sf output.

Changed

• All spatial outputs now default to sf instead of Spatial* types
• online reconstruction method now suggests the ‘geojsonsf’ extension package for reading in features

Removed

• dependency of deprecated ‘rgdal’ extension
• Support for polygons for the online reconstruction method.

Known issues

• Matrix-based reconstructinos do not accept missing values.

[0.1.0] - 2021-05-11 (build 3)

Changed

• Bug fix for spaces in usernames on Windows machines.

[0.1.0] - 2021-05-11 (build 2)

Added

• material copied over from chronosphere 0.4.1
• reconstruct(model=NULL) argumentation.

Changed

• platemodel data example is manually extracted
• reconstruct example replaced with model=NULL