burnr v0.5.0

Changes in this release:

• Added as_fhx() (Issue #120). This takes data frames, tibbles, and lists as input. It assumes they have "year", "series", and "rec_type" elements/columns. It returns an fhx object. Additionally, the fhx() constructor now also uses type casting for input (Issue #150) - so no more worrying if your rec_types are factors or character vectors. These changes are a big improvement for anyone working in the tidyverse or anyone working with thier own non-FHX fire-history file formats.

• Extensive improvement to documentation (e.g. Issue #145). This includes new "See Also" sections (so users can find cool functions), fixes for spelling errors, and clarifications to dyslexic prose.

• write_fhx() will now throw a warning if users try to write an fhx object that has record types violating the FHX2 file convention (Issue #149). I still strongly recommend using write.csv(...) on fhx objects and as.fhx(read.csv(...)) for IO with experimental fhx data.

• Removed deprecated run_sea(). Be sure to use sea() now.

• Removed deprecated get_ggplot(). Please use plot_demograph() now.

• Removed broken site_stats() function (Issue #138). Please use intervals() and print() to get the same statistics.

• composite() now returns an empty fhx object if no composite-worthy events are found (Issue #131) or if there are no fire-events (Issue #155). Much better than throwing an obtuse error, which is what we used to do.

• Updated in-package citation information (citation("burnr")). Please cite burnr if you use it in your work!

• yearly_recording() now returns a data frame with a numeric "year" column (Issue #154). In past versions, the "year" column contained factors.

• Added unit tests for basic plotting function options. We now have test coverage for more than 75% of our code.

• Minor internal code cleanup (Issue #130, Issue #88, Issue #133, Issue #136, Issue #88, Issue #146) and code linting.