eRTG3D 0.6.4

• Adjust URLs to GitHub account due to renaming munterfinger to @munterfi.

eRTG3D 0.6.3

• Add ORCID to author field in DESCRIPTION.
• Switch from travis to GitHub Actions.
• Remove sp, gridExtra and plyr from imports and add to suggestions.

New features

• Tracks longer than 1500 steps are now allowed as input for reproduce.track.3d(): Replaced stop statement with a message.

First version on CRAN

Fourth submission to CRAN. Formal changes in the package description and enhanced testing.

New features
Package now available on CRAN: install.packages("eRTG3D").
Added tests and examples for the point cloud analysis functionalities.

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Unified parallel implementation

Third submission to CRAN. Replaced the parallel version of the functions with one unifying parallel implementation for Unix (fork cluster) and Windows (PSOCK cluster) systems. The number of nodes in the cluster can be set manually, if no value is provided the number of detected cores minus one is used to set up the cluster.

New features

• New unifying function for parallel computation on Windows AND Unix systems including a progressbar. The parameter name has changed from multicore to parallel since this notation is more correct.
• The number of nodes in the cluster (forkCluster or PSOCKCluster) can be specified, by setting parallel = nNodes.
• Added tests for parallel computation.
• URL to the master thesis and corrected DOI.
• The functions sim.glidingSoaring.3d(), voxelCount and chiMaps are now silent, to unmute set verbose = TRUE.

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Initial CRAN submission

Initial submission to CRAN. New github page created with pkgdown. Added continuous integration by Travis CI, unit testing with testthat and codecovr for test coverage assessment. Restructured and updated package documentation.

New features

• GitHub page for the package. Created with pkgdown
• Documentation for conducting 2-D simulations and voxel counting in order to extract utilization distributions.
• Continuous integration by Travis CI
• Unit testing with testthat
• Test coverage assessment using codecovr
• New eRTG3D logo
• New index/home area with interactive 3-D plots
• Shiny app - Online eRTG3D simulator: https://mufi.shinyapps.io/ertg3d-simulator/

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Support for simulations in 2-D

The 2-D case should also be handled by a 3-D algorithm, therefore the handling of 2-D trajectories is now enabled. To use simulations in 2-D, just pass in a data.frame where the z dimension is zero or has a constant value. The algorithm handles 2-D input correctly and the resulting simulations are valid. Since the third dimension is still part of the 2-D trajectory (either 0 or a constant value), the combination of 3-D and 2-D simulations is straight forward. Furthermore, the wrapper, plotting and testing functions are now also capable of handling 2-D input.

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Use of R base functions

Replacement of .fd.bw with the R base funciton grDevices::nclass.FD, closes #29.
Update required packages, documentation and vignettes.

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Package ready for CRAN

Updated Roxygen2 function documentations with examples that run properly. Declared all import statements properly. 'R CMD check --as-cran eRTG3D_0.5.6.tar.gz' runs properly, no errors and warnings only 3 notes.

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Windows parallel support and plotly update

Parallel calculations are now also enabled for Windows, just set multicore=TRUE to use it. The 3D plots are now adjusted to plotly 4.8.0, since the coloring is handled differently for markers and lines.

The package now is based on R 3.5.1 and all packages have been updated.

Minor fixes

Dependencies updated, documentation updated and variable names in plots adjusted