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RSurvey 0.9.3

  • Fix broken cross-reference links in the help documentation.

  • Remove stray next command from ManagePolygons function.

RSurvey 0.9.2

  • Change USGS package status from 'Research' to 'Orphan'.

  • Stop including variables of class factor in histogram plots.

  • Fix bug resulting in error when viewing data for coordinate variables with sort order set.

RSurvey 0.9.1

  • Replace R copy/paste commands with those in Tcl/Tk.

  • Move package repository to USGS-R/RSurvey on GitHub.

  • Account for coordinate reference system not being applicable for spatial data.

  • Use valid Tk-key-binding names, prevents errors on Linux OS.

RSurvey 0.9.0

  • Complete redesign of the graphical user interface and plotting routines.

  • Remove GPL (>=2) software license and place in the public domain (CCO).

  • Change to in-source documentation using roxygen2 package.

  • Leverage functions in the inlmisc package for plotting and polygon operations.

  • Add CITATION file to be used by the citation function.

  • Remove BuildPackage function and replace with Makefile.

  • Change NEWS file to markdown format.

  • Change format for package version numbering from #.#-# to #.#.#

  • Fix bug that prevents data import from text files.

RSurvey 0.8-3

  • Revised GUI in the LoadPackages function to make it more obvious that the missing packages are not necessary (thanks, @geneorama, #1).

  • Changed donttest to dontrun in the man files.

RSurvey 0.8-2

  • Removed require for conditioning in package code, now using requireNamespace.

RSurvey 0.8-1

  • Fixed a bug in the EditData function that resulted from not updating the search index when a new cell selection was made.

  • Improved handling of time zones in variables of class 'POSIXt'.

  • Added the ProgressBar function to show the status for long-running operations. The progress bar is implemented when indexing search results.

  • In the EditData function, the class of the object used to populate the spreadsheet-like table has been changed from a 'data.frame' to a 'list' with vector components of equal length. This change has resulted in a noticeable performance boost.

RSurvey 0.8-0

  • Fixed bug that converted all exported data fields to character class when writing Shapefiles and R data files.

  • Added ImportSpreadsheet function, imports a worksheet from an Office open XML Workbook file (*.xlsx).

  • Show individual observations and density estimate in histogram plot.

RSurvey 0.7-9

  • In the DESCRIPTION file, packages declared in the 'Depends' field were moved to the 'Imports' field.

  • Redesigned GUI layout in the Format function.

RSurvey 0.7-8

  • Variables of class 'Date' are now handled correctly.

  • Removed dependency on the rgl package.

  • Improved performance for counting the number of lines in a file.

  • Fixed bug that was preventing data imports using paste operation.

  • Improved performance in the EditData function by removing its reliance on a copy of the data frame that was coerced into character-class components.

  • The base::format function is now used when a format conversion specification string is not supplied. Previously defaulted to a general string representation; for example, numeric objects were formatted using the '%f' string.

  • Removed SummarizeVariable function and replaced it with the more general base::summary and utils::str functions.

RSurvey 0.7-5

  • Graphics opened in a platform-independent way using the grDevices::dev.new function.

  • Function name changes: ViewText to EditText, and ViewData to EditData.

  • Calendar date-time variables are accurately converted to character strings using the POSIXct2Character function.

  • Added ability to import, edit, and export comment string.

  • Added ability to edit raw data in a spreadsheet with final edits are saved in a change log.

  • Added GUI for importing data from an R package. R data sets may also be imported from a file.

  • RSurvey project files are specified using the *.RData file extension. The *.rda extension is reserved for R data files.

  • Functions ReadFile and WriteFile have been embedded into the ImportText and ExportData functions, respectively.

  • Additional arguments have been added to the ExportData GUI.

  • In the ImportText GUI, added decimal and encoding arguments, and custom entries for separator, NA strings, and comment parameters.

RSurvey 0.7-4

  • Main GUI is launched automatically when RSurvey is loaded.

  • Added ability to view single variable in the ImportText GUI.

  • It is no longer required to have a data set loaded to open the DataManagement GUI.

  • Fixed bug with finding unique values in EditFunction GUI.

  • The header line specifying variable names now comes before the format header line. Users need to update header lines in their input text files to reflect this change.

  • Measurement units have been removed. Users need to remove unit headers from their input text files.

  • Added GUI for sorting the processed data set.

RSurvey 0.7-3

  • Removed dependency on the tripack package because of its restricted license which explicitly forbids commercial use.