Changes in version 4.0.7 (2020-10-26) o 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"). o 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 Changes in version 4.0.6 (2020-02-28) o Minor update: package raster declared in imports for R compatibility Changes in version 4.0.5 (2019-12-11) o 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" o 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" o 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 Changes in version 4.0.4 (2018-11-28) o 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 o 3 sites added Changes in version 4.0.3 (2018-08-20) o Prefunit is defined as the unit with more data for sites without influx (otherwise influx unit is always the prefunit) o 9 sites added and 1114 charcoal values Changes in version 4.0.2 (2018-05-02) o 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. o num_dating variable issues corrected o minor bug fixes Changes in version 4.0.1 (2018-03-26) o 7 sites have been added and associated 3500 char values o Depths have been corrected to be exact at the third decimal for several sites Changes in version 4.0.0 (2018-03-01) o GCD database now mirrors the online SQL database http://paleofire.org o Future updates will be monthly or whenerver database updates o Paleofiresites table has been reduced and adapted to SQL data (see pfSiteSel changes in paleofire package) o charcoal_units table added Changes in version 3.0.5 (2015-04-22) o Removed potveg function (now part of paleofire package) o Documentation moved to roxygen Changes in version 3.0.4 (2014-05-22) New features o Added publications and citation data for paleofire::pfPublication function Changes in version 3.0.3 (2014-05-01) o 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 o "0: Water" level has been added to potential vegetations o Bug fix in potveg function related to projections not considered as longlat by default for the extract function (raster package). Changes in version 3.0.2 (2014-04-09) o Bug fix that caused potveg to fail (related to old variable naming scheme) Changes in version 3.0.1 (2014-03-13) New features o Added UNIT METHOD and TYPE in paleofiredata to work in conjunction with pfTransform (paleofire package 1.1) o Added potveg to retrieve the potential vegetation associated with charcoal sites (and plot capabilities) o paleofiresites has been updated to work in conjunction with pfSiteSel (paleofire package 1.1) Fixes o All data from the GCD is now included (multiple units may exist for single sites) o Three decimal unit precision for all charcoal values Changes in version 3.0 (2013-11-15) o Initial release of the package