Changes in version 0.3-23 (2025-01-28) BUG FIXES o changes of vignette to avoid errors in address sanitizer CRAN checks Changes in version 0.3-22 (2025-01-17) NEW FEATURES o changes of vignette (reverse substitution of R-code chunks for block Kriging by tex output, changed pwidth and pheight arguments for block kriging in Meuse example) Changes in version 0.3-21 (2025-01-08) NEW FEATURES o spatial covariance of covariates set equal to 0 (instead of NA) for blocks that contain only one grid point in lognormal back-transformation of block kriging results under assumption of permanence of lognormality of block means o changes of vignette (temporary substitution of R-code chunks for block Kriging by tex output) BUG FIXES o correction of error in lognormal back-transformation of block kriging results under assumption of permanence of lognormality of block means Changes in version 0.3-20 (2024-09-05) BUG FIXES o corrected missing package anchor in documentation lgnpp.Rd anchors Changes in version 0.3-19 (2024-03-10) NEW FEATURES o improved handling of parallelized matrix multiplications and parallelized computations of generalized covariances by main process and and child processes running already in parallel o code file georob_private_functions.R replaced by 4 new code files georob_private_further_functions.R, georob_private_generalized_covariances.R, georob_private_georob_fit.R and georob_private_psi_functions_etc.R BUG FIXES o minor edits in various help pages Changes in version 0.3-18 (2024-02-12) NEW FEATURES o minor revision of vignette o substituted all donttest statements in examples with lengthy computations by interactive() clause which has the effect that lenghty computations are only carried out in interactive sessions BUG FIXES o correction of error in predict.georob() when processing output o plot.sample.variogram() now returns NULL o eliminated lonely item in NEWS.Rd Changes in version 0.3-17 (2024-02-03) NEW FEATURES o eliminated dependency on functions RFfctn() and RFsimulate() of archived package RandomFields by new functions gencorr(), sim.chol.decomp(), sim.circulant.embedding() o added on.exit(options(oldoptions)) and on.exit(par(oldpar)) after call options() and par() in function code o querying class attribute by inherits() o changed default for argument allow.recursive of function control.pcmp() o more efficient calculation of lag.vectors for geometrically anisotropic variograms o thorough revision of function condsim() (new functions sim.chol.decomp() and sim.circulant.embedding() for simulating unconditional Gaussian realizations by Cholesky matrix decomposition and circulant embedding method) BUG FIXES o corrected parameter bounds for models RMlgd, RMdampedcos, RMfbm and RMgenfbm o corrected symbol for signal variance in package help page and vignette o complemented value section of various help pages, diverse fixes in order to comply with CRAN policies in Rd-files Changes in version 0.3-16 NEW FEATURES o substituted dependency on RandomFields, version 3.3.14, by dependency on RandomFieldsMLV3010 version 0.1.0 (= legacy version of RandomFields, version 3.0.10, with reduced functionality) BUG FIXES o correction of error in add1.georob, drop1.georob and step.georob occuring in parallelized computations on windows OS o forcing socket clusters for parallelized computations in condsim on non-windows OS Changes in version 0.3-15 NEW FEATURES o new file inst/NEWS.Rd BUG FIXES o new default (FALSE) for argument allow.recursive of control.pcmp o sanitized help pages complying with KaTeX o only NAMESPACE is imported for the formerly attached packages graphics, parallel, snowfall, stats and utils o vignette and help pages that use suggested packages gstat, lattice and multcomp changed Changes in version 0.3-14 (2021-06-04) BUG FIXES o correction of error in check of initial values of anisotropy parameters in function georob.fit Changes in version 0.3-13 (2020-03-28) NEW FEATURES o functions fit.variogram.model and georob compute now Hessian of non-transformed variogram parameters in addition to Hessian of transformed parameters BUG FIXES o correction of error in sanity checks of arguments of function georob Changes in version 0.3-12 (2020-02-16) NEW FEATURES o new data sets wolfcamp and elevation BUG FIXES o all code files renamed o sanity checks of arguments in calls of if and switch o DESCRIPTION: omission of _suggest_ dependency for orphaned package geoR in o vignette: conditional use of objects provided by _suggested_ packages gstat and multcomp Changes in version 0.3-11 (2019-12-18) BUG FIXES o NAMESPACE: correction of dependencies o DESCRIPTION: correction of dependencies and licence information o method summary.georob takes terms component now from georob object o function condsim: sanity checks of specified function arguments and for calls of if o function condsim: correction of errors when processing output of function RFsimulate o changes in calls of class Changes in version 0.3-10 (2019-05-24) BUG FIXES o method summary.georob: correction of error when printing confidence intervals of variogram parameters o function condsim: correction of error that occurred when preparing output consisting of a single realization Changes in version 0.3-9 (2019-04-08) NEW FEATURES o function fit.variogram.model: new control argument and possibility to choose between optim and nlminb optimizer for non-linear least squares o new function control.fit.variogram.model for providing sensible defaults to argument control of fit.variogram.model BUG FIXES o internal function f.aux.gcr: correction of error introduced in version 0.3-8 when computing semivariances for anisotropic variogram models Changes in version 0.3-8 (2019-03-29) NEW FEATURES o function condsim: conditioning data is passed as SpatialPointsDataFrame to RFsimulate BUG FIXES o internal function f.aux.gcr: changes for new version 3.3 of package RandomFields Changes in version 0.3-7 (2018-08-27) BUG FIXES o internal function f.aux.sim.1: elimination of grid.nodes argument o methods add1.georob, drop1.georob, step.georob: elimination of data argument Changes in version 0.3-6 (2018-01-26) NEW FEATURES o improved memory management in all parallized computations o method predict.georob: generates error message if names of coordinates in object and newdata are not the same o method predict.georob: new optional arguments for specifying a variogram model different from the one contained in object o new functions condsim and control.condsim for (un)conditional simulations BUG FIXES o internal function f.call.set_allxxx_to_fitted_values variogram.model is also updated Changes in version 0.3-5 (2017-10-20) NEW FEATURES o internal function georob.fit: changes to allow non-zero snugget if there are no replicated observations o new methods coef.georob and print.coef.georob Changes in version 0.3-4 (2017-05-09) NEW FEATURES o internal function georob.fit: issuinng warning for negative-definite hessian BUG FIXES o functions georob and control.rq: small changes and error correction in interface to rq for computing robust initial values Changes in version 0.3-3 (2017-01-24) BUG FIXES o function fit.variogram.model: correction of minor bug for fitting 3d anisotropic variogram models to sample variograms Changes in version 0.3-2 (2016-11-28) NEW FEATURES o internal function georob.fit: checking ml.method and presence of intercept for intrinsic models BUG FIXES o method predict.georob: correction of error when computing predictions for intrinsic variograms o interal function likelihood.calculations: correction of error when printing trial parameter values if they exceed safe bounds o (internal) functions fit.variogram.model, likelihood.calculations,georob.fit, partial.derivatives.variogram: correcting of error in 3d-rotation matrix for geometrically anisotropic variograms Changes in version 0.3-1 (2016-09-09) BUG FIXES o correction of minor error in internal function Changes in version 0.3-0 (2016-09-08) NEW FEATURES o functionality to use nested variogram models o function control.georob: change of default value for argument error.family.cov.residuals o method plot.sample.variogram: new argument lty BUG FIXES o internal function bwd.transf: correction of error for logit-transformations o method cv.georob: correction of error when computing standard errors of cv kriging predictions Changes in version 0.2-4 (2016-07-27) NEW FEATURES o improvements in all parallelized computations o methods add1.georob, drop1.georob, step.georob: extended functionality for refitting variogram parameters or keeping them fixed, improved computational efficiency, diagnostics about convergence o method cv.georob: allow recursive calls of mclapply o function georob: allowing use of lmrob for computing initial fixed effects for rank-deficient model matrix o function profilelogLik and method waldtest.georob: improved computationsl efficiency o method predict.georob: SpatialPoints, SpatialPixels and SpatialGrid as newdata objects o method plot.cv.georob: added line color and type for scatterplot smooths BUG FIXES o method fixef.georob: correcting wrong component name o internal function georob.fit: corrected names of gradient components Changes in version 0.2-3 (2016-03-02) NEW FEATURES o method plot.georob: changes for residual diagnostic plots o method plot.cv.georob: minor changes for adding plots to existing diagnostics graphics BUG FIXES o ... Changes in version 0.2-2 (2015-12-03) NEW FEATURES o new way to control which variogram parameters are fitted o generic and methods for computing sample variogram o methods cv.georob and predict.georob: catching errors occurring during parallelized computations o functions validate.preditions, fit.variogram.model: check whether mandatory arguments were provided o method plot.georob: changes for Tukey-Anscombe, normal QQ-plots and for plotting variograms o issuing additional warnings in various computations BUG FIXES o function fit.variogram.model: correcting error in setting default values for fit.param Changes in version 0.2-1 (2015-09-02) NEW FEATURES o Gaussian (RE)ML estimation of parameters of re-parametrized variogram o new function profilelogLik for computing profile loglikelihood of variogram parameters o extended functionality for transforming variogram parameters o changes for improving computational efficiency o functionality for optional computation of covariances for long-tailed error distributions o many more improvements, see ChangeLog for period from 2015-04-03 to 2015-09-02 BUG FIXES o correction of multiple errors, see ChangeLog for period from 2015-04-03 to 2015-09-02