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CSTools 25-11-2019

Development

• CST_Analogs Analogs downscaling method,
• CST_MultiEOFS for multiple variables,
• Ensemble Clustering,
• Categorical Ensemble Combination,
• new Calibration methods included in CST_Calibration,
• Best Estimated Index method,
• CST_QuantileMapping,
• CST_SplitDim to split dimension, if it is a temporal dimension, it can be split by days, months and years or other inidices,
• creation and transformation to class 's2dv_cube',
• CST_SaveExp function for saving experiments to be loadable with CST_Load,
• Parallelization of RainFARM downscaling
• Adding unit tests using testthat for BEI and RainFarm functions
• New vignette Best Estimate Index
• Addapting CST_Load to use 'as.s2dv_cube' function
• Adding reference to S2S4E H2020 project into the DESCRIPTION file
• Adding NEWS.md file

Fixes

• Minor fix in CST_BiasCorrection when checking parameter 'obs'
• Minor fix in data lonlat_prec to be of class 's2dv_cube'
• Minor fix in RainFARM vignette

CSTools 1.0.1 (Release date: 19-06-2019)

Fixes and development

• Correcting test of PlotForecastPDF for compatibility with ggplot2 release
• New function PlotCombinedMap
• Adding reference to MEDSCOPE ERA4CS Project into the DESCRIPTION file
• Documentation minor fix in CST_RFWeights
• Minor fix in PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap for bar_titles
• MultiModelSkill vignette updated to use PlotCombinedMap

CSTools 1.0.0 (Release date: 24-04-2019)

• Features included: Load, Anomaly, MultiMetric, MultivarRMSE, Calibration, BiasCorrection, RainFARM Downscaling, PlotForecastPDF, PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap
• Three sample data: lonlat_data, lonlat_prec, areave_data
• Unit tests using testthat: BiasCorrection, Calibration, MultiMetric, PlotForecast
• Vignettes: MultiMetric, Multivar and RainFARM

CSTools 25-10-2022

Development

• Dependency on package 's2dverification' is changed to 's2dv'
• CST_BiasCorrection new parameters 'memb_dim', 'sdate_dim', 'ncores'
• CST_Calibration is able to calibrate forecast with new parameter 'exp_cor'
• CST_QuantileMapping uses cross-validation and provides option to remove NAs; new parameters 'memb_dim', 'sdate_dim', 'window_dim' and 'na.rm'; 'sample_dim' and 'sample_length' are removed
• s2dv_cube() new parameter 'time_dim'

Fixes

• as.s2dv_cube() detects latitude and longitude structure in startR_array object
• Data correction: 'lonlat_data' is renamed to 'lonlat_temp'; 'lonlat_prec' is corrected by one-day shift
• Typo and parameter correction in vignette 'MostLikelyTercile_vignette'
• Figure and result correction in vignette 'RainFARM_vignette'
• PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap() works with s2dv::PlotLayout

CSTools 25-01-2024

Development

• New function CST_ChangeDimNames
• CST_SplitDim: added dimension names and split also Dates
• CST_SaveExp: save time bounds and global attributes; improved code

Other

• Updated README
• Added citation file

CSTools 23-02-2021

Development

• ADAMONT downscaling method: requires CST_AdamontAnalogs and CST_AdamontQQCor functions
• Analogs method using Predictors: requires training_analogs and CST_AnalogsPredictors
• PlotPDFsOLE includes parameters to modify legend style
• CST_RFSlope handless missing values in the temporal dimension and new 'ncores' parameter allows parallel computation
• CST_RFWeights accepts s2dv_cube objects as input and new 'ncores' paramenter allows parallel computation
• RFWeights is exposed to users
• CST_RainFARM accepts multi-dimensional slopes and weights and handless missing values in sample dimensions
• QuantileMapping is exposed to users
• CST_MultiMetric includes 'rpss' metric and it is addapted to s2dv
• PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap vignette
• PlotTriangles4Categories includes two parameters to adjust axis and margins
• CategoricalEnsCombination is exposed to users
• CST_SplitDims includes parameter 'insert_ftime'
• Analogs vignette
• Data Storage and retrieval vignette

Fixes

• PlotForecastPDF correctly displays terciles labels
• CST_SaveExp correctly save time units
• CST_SplitDims returns ordered output following ascending order provided in indices when it is numeric
• qmap library moved from Imports to Depends
• CST_QuantileMapping correctly handles exp_cor
• Figures resize option from vignettes has been removed
• Fix Analogs to work with three diferent criteria
• Vignette PlotForecastPDF updated plots
• Decrease package size compresing vignettes figures and removing areave_data sample

CSTools 19-10-2023

Fixes

• Added startR namespace in all CST_Start calls of the vignettes and sample data.

CSTools 17-10-2023

Fixes

• Calibration() show warnings in atomic function when multiple cores are used.
• PlotForecastPDF fix background color in different machines.
• Correct CST_Subset indices for metadata.
• CST_Analogs: Add sdate_dim parameter and improve initial checks.
• Remove CST_Anomaly repeated checks in order to accept no member dimensions in obs.
• CST_SaveExp developments: improve warning, save metadata correctly.
• Improve print method in order that time_bounds are correctly displayed.

Development

• PlotWeeklyClim to allow years outside the reference period.
• PlotWeeklyClim to allow setting y limits.
• New function CST_Start().
• PlotCombinedMap() has upper triangle_end; the color bars can have different breaks.
• New print method.
• CST_MultiEOF development treat spatial NAs.
• Correct PlotCombinedMap error.
• Substitute mentions of CST_Load by CST_Start.
• Modify necessary vignettes to the use of CST_Start.

CSTools 10-11-2022

Fixes

• CST_Analogs corrected input of ClimProjDiags::Subset()
• PlotCombinedMap corrected use of 'cex_bar_titles' parameter
• CST_Anomaly added 'memb_dim', 'dat_dim' and 'ftime_dim' and improved use for 'dim_anom' parameters

CSTools 10-02-2020

Development

• CST_MergeDims and MergeDims
• Version working with R 3.4.2
• PlotForecastPDF handles independent terciles, extremes and observations for each panel

Fixes

• CST_Calibration handles missing values
• BEI functions handle missing values

CSTools 06-06-2023

• Resubmit to CRAN because it was archived due to dependency issue

Fixes

• Standardize the coordinates of 's2dv_cube' by setting the coordinates to vectors with NULL dimensions
• Include a check for SaveExp output filenames that only contain date information
• In SaveExp the dates parameter is allowed to have additional time dimensions of length 1
• Removed dot from the internal function named mergedatasets() used in CST_CategoricalEnsCombination

Development

• New parameter 'startdates' in CST_SaveExp used to manually decide the name of the output files

Other

• Switch to testthat version 3

CSTools 05-10-2021

Development

• Dynamical Bias Correction method: CST_ProxiesAttractors and CST_DynBiasCorrection (optionally Predictability)
• CST_BiasCorrection and BiasCorrection allows to calibrate a forecast given the calibration in the hindcast by using parameter 'exp_cor'
• Use cases
• CST_SaveExp includes parameter extra_string
• PlotCombinedMap includes parameter cex_bar_titles

Fixes

• Calibration retains correlation absolute value
• Calibration fixed when cal.methodi == rpc-based, apply_to == sign, eval.method == 'leave-one-out' and the correlation is not significant
• PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap reoder latitudes of an array provided in 'dots' parameter

CSTools 05-04-2023

Fixes

• Correct vignettes: Analogs, MultiModelSkill and MultivarRMSE
• Add 'ncores' to s2dv function calls in CST_Anomaly
• Reduce computing time of examples and tests and improve documentation

Development

• Add dat_dim parameter in CST_BiasCorrection and CST_Calibration
• New plotting function for case studies temporal visualisation: PlotWeeklyClim
• Deprecate indices in dim_anom parameter of CST_Anomaly
• Allow memb_dim to be NULL in QuantileMapping
• Uncomment tests in CST_MultivarRMSE due to correction of RMS in s2dv next release (released s2dv 1.4.0 21/03)
• New s2dv_cube object development for all the functions, unit tests, examples and vignettes
• New function CST_Subset similar to Subset with 's2dv_cubes'
• Improved CST_SaveExp function with new features
• New color set in PlotForecastPDF Vitigeoss colors
• New function CST_InsertDim

Other

• Added contribution from ArticXchange project due to PlotWeeklyClim
• Update NEWS.md with the correct format
• Change Licence

CSTools 02-07-2020

Development

• EnsClustering vignette
• EnsClustering has a new parameter 'time_dim'
• CST_BiasCorrection has na.rm paramter
• CST_Anomaly allows to smooth the climatology with filter.span parameter
• PlotTriangles4Categories new plotting function to convert any 3-d numerical array to a grid of coloured triangles
• CST_WeatherRegimes/WeatherRegimes and CST_RegimeAssign/RegimeAssign
• PlotPDFsOLE plots two probability density gaussian functions and the optimal linear estimation
• CST_RFTemp/RF_Temp functions available for downscaling temperature
• Weather Regimes vignette

Fixes

• CST_Anomaly handles exp, obs or both
• PlotForecastPDF vignette displays figures correctly
• Calibration function is exposed to users
• MultiMetric vignette fixed typo text description
• RainFARM checks 'slope' is not a vector
• DESCRIPTION specifies the minimum multiApply version required
• EnsClustering has a fixed 'closest_member' output
• PlotCombinedMap handles masks correctly
• CST_SaveExp uses multiApply and save time dimension correctly