NEWS
GCD 4.0.7 (2020-10-26)
- Major updates:
Added "basin_size", "depo_context", "site_type" and "lands_desc" tables and associated information in "paleofiresites" table.
For a description of the variables added see help("paleofiresites") and data("paleofiresites"). For details
on a specific variable, for example "basin_size", see help("basin_size") and data("basin_size").
- Sites added:
1182 Djamila
1183 Ait Ichou
1184 Burullus Lagoon
1185 Princessvlei
1186 Lake Ngami
1191 Sainte-Luce
1193 Mandena
1194 Mandena forest
1201 Yak2-A
1202 Yak2-B
1203 Yak3-A
1204 Yak3-B
1205 Lake Gaye
1207 Lake Gwendolyn
1208 Lake Nancy
1209 Lake Vera
1210 Lake Osborne
1211 Lake Julia
1212 Square Tarn
1213 Hartz Lake
1214 Owen Tarn
1215 Lake Isla
1216 Lake Rolleston
1217 Basin Lake TAS
1219 Sangha River
1227 Vankervelsvlei
1228 Lake Edward
1229 Rietvlei-Still Bay
1230 Eilandvlei
1231 Malahlapanga
1232 Lake Ngofouo
1233 Dead Sea
1238 Emile_Lake
1239 Izaac_Lake
1240 Paradis_Lake
1241 Saxon_Lake
GCD 4.0.6 (2020-02-28)
- Minor update: package raster declared in imports for R compatibility
GCD 4.0.5 (2019-12-11)
- Sites removed
"119" "Lago Dell'Accesa"
"129" "Rucanancu"
"420" "ODP-1144"
"667" "Cederberg Pakhuisch"
"835" "Azzano Decimo part 1"
"836" "Azzano Decimo part 2"
"837" "Azzano Decimo part 3"
"1106" "Besancon TEST"
"1155" "testNairobi"
- Sites added:
"1168" "Lake Sidi Ali"
"1169" "Lac Geai SBL"
"1174" "La Laguna"
"1175" "Laguna Grande"
"1176" "Laguna de Valleseco"
"1177" "Lac a Jean-Marie Boulay"
"1178" "Lac Bride"
"1180" "Garba Guracha"
- Added dataset about dating
date.rda -> dating information (age, depths, etc.)
date_type.rda -> code on date type (14C, tephra, etc.)
mat_dated.rda -> material dated
GCD 4.0.4 (2018-11-28)
- 0 "QUANTITY" charcoal values are stored as NULL in the SQL database and were dropped in previous GCD package versions !!PLEASE UPDATE!!
Only affects older GCD 4.x.x versions
- 3 sites added
GCD 4.0.3 (2018-08-20)
- Prefunit is defined as the unit with more data for sites without influx (otherwise influx unit is always the prefunit)
- 9 sites added and 1114 charcoal values
GCD 4.0.2 (2018-05-02)
- Three new fields in paleofiresites table to enable backward compatibility and listing GCD version numbers "GCD_version"
"num_version" and data publication date "update_date", see ?paleofiresites for details.
- num_dating variable issues corrected
- minor bug fixes
GCD 4.0.1 (2018-03-26)
- 7 sites have been added and associated 3500 char values
- Depths have been corrected to be exact at the third decimal for several sites
GCD 4.0.0 (2018-03-01)
- GCD database now mirrors the online SQL database http://paleofire.org
- Future updates will be monthly or whenerver database updates
- Paleofiresites table has been reduced and adapted to SQL data (see pfSiteSel changes in paleofire package)
- charcoal_units table added
GCD 3.0.5 (2015-04-22)
- Removed potveg function (now part of paleofire package)
- Documentation moved to roxygen
GCD 3.0.4 (2014-05-22)
New features
- Added publications and citation data for paleofire::pfPublication function
GCD 3.0.3 (2014-05-01)
- The rf99 and l12 fields have been updated using the potveg function and kernel density estimation of the dominant potential vegetation in a radius of 30 km around sites
- "0: Water" level has been added to potential vegetations
- Bug fix in potveg function related to projections not considered as longlat by default for the extract function (raster package).
GCD 3.0.2 (2014-04-09)
- Bug fix that caused potveg to fail (related to old variable naming scheme)
GCD 3.0.1 (2014-03-13)
New features
- Added UNIT METHOD and TYPE in paleofiredata to work in conjunction with pfTransform (paleofire package 1.1)
- Added potveg to retrieve the potential vegetation associated with charcoal sites (and plot capabilities)
- paleofiresites has been updated to work in conjunction with pfSiteSel (paleofire package 1.1)
Fixes
- All data from the GCD is now included (multiple units may exist for single sites)
- Three decimal unit precision for all charcoal values
GCD 3.0 (2013-11-15)
- Initial release of the package