
    package: 'soiltexture'

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.1
    
    2018/09/19  Files languages.rds and triangles.rds 
        re-generated after some issues when runiing tests 
        on Travis CI and AppVeyor. Not sure if that was needed.
        
        Attempt to make the package running on R >= 3.1.0, 
        rather than the latest version of R (currently R 3.5.0) 
        using Travis CI to test if the package can be 
        installed on that version of R.
        
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.0
    
    2018/06/28  The file soiltexture-package.Rd is now 
        generated by utils::promptPackage(). It was out 
        of sync with the DESCRIPTION. On a request of CRAN,
    
    2018/06/27  Added a new clone of the texture triangle 
        CA.EN.TT (here called CA2.EN.TT) with the official 
        texture labels, so it can be used for governmental 
        purpose.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.6
    
    2017/05/01  The bibTeX file vignettes/soiltexture_vignette.bib 
        was sanitised for non-ascii characters, that 
        were replaced by equivalent LaTeX command. (after 
        a reqtest from CRAN maintainer)
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.5
    
    2017/09/27  Added a field "BugReports" to the package 
        DESCRIPTION, with a link to the package 
        GitHub issue tracing system.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.4
    
    2017/09/27  Added a new "duplicate" of the USDA 
        soil texture triangle, identical to USDA.TT, 
        except that the labels have been changed to 
        match better class-abbreviations currently used 
        at USDA-NCSS (after a suggestion from Dylan Beaudette, 
        NCSS).
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.3

    2017/03/05 to 2017/03/29
        Added yet several polish texture triangles:
        *   Polish_PTG_1956_Musierowicz.TT
        *   Polish_kategorie_agronomiczne_1990.TT
        *   PTG_2008.TT
        
        All are courtesy of Michal Stepien and Darek Gozdowski.
        
        The following triangles
        *   Polish_PTG_1956_Musierowicz.TT
        *   Polish_BN_1978.TT
        *   Polish_kategorie_agronomiczne_1990.TT
        *   (PTG_2008.TT)?
        
        Now include polish characters (thanks to Michal Stepien). 
        These characters may only be displayed correctly on 
        some platforms.
        
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.2

    2017/03/05  Add a new polish texture triangle 
        (Polish_BN_1978.TT). Courtesy of 
        Michal Stepien and Darek Gozdowski.
        
        Move the repository from rforge to GitHub.
        Change version control system from subversion to git.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.1

    2016/06/07  In NAMESPACE / importFrom, use packageVersion instead of 
        packageDescription. Fix .onAttach

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.0 
    
    2016/04/08  Add many importFrom in the NAMESPACE.
        Package "utils" now not in "Depends" but in "Imports" 
        instead.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.3 
    
    2015/05/15  Minor changes to the package vignette: 
        * Call to require() (xtable, soiltexture) now replaced 
          by call lo library().
        * Removed a call to .packages() 
          that may cause the package compilation to crash 
          on r-forge (Windows devel).
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.2
    
    2015/04/23  Replaced shell.exec() by browserURL() 
        in soiltexture_gui(). shell.exec() only works 
        on windows.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.1
    
    2015/04/17  Compiled for R 3.2.0. Inlinedocs 
        documentation still generated with R 3.1.1 
        (inlinedocs 2013.9.3).
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0
    
    2015/04/11  Implements a new text-based graphical user 
        interface: soiltexture_gui(). The user is guided 
        through a series of simple question to import, 
        plot and classify soil texture data.
    
    2015/04/12  Many functions have now been classified 
        as "internal" (keywords = internal) in order 
        to simplify the long list of functions in the 
        package help pages
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.22
    
    2015/03/09  Fix package imports from tools and utils.
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.21

    2015/03/06  Added a new Brazilian texture triangle:
        from Humberto Gonalves dos Santos [et al.], 2013. 
        Sistema Brasileiro de Classificao de Solos, 3 ed. rev. 
        ampl. Braslia, DF: Embrapa, 2013.
        Triangle digitization is a courtesy of Jos Lucas Safanelli 
        and Alexandre ten Caten (UFSC Curitibanos, Brasil)
        
        Added a long list of contributors to the package DESCRIPTION, 
        that now includes all the people who have helped including 
        and digitizing new texture triangles.
        
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.20

    2014/10/02  Packages dependencies moved from "Depends" to "Imports"
        in package DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.19

    2014/09/25  Compiled for R 3.1.1
    
        Attempt to fix imports from tools::package_dependencies
    
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.18
    
    2014/07/03  Added SVN_VERSION file and show SVN version when 
        the package is attached.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.17
    
    2014/07/02  Fixed small bug in the vignette (prevented package
        compilation)

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.16
    
    2014/06/10  New attempt to fix special characters in languages
        and triangles

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.15

    2014/06/09  Added texture triangle from Lemos & Santos (1996) 
        (Brasilian triangle). Courtesy of Rodolfo Marcondes 
        Silva Souza, UFPE, Brasil. Code BRASIL.TT
                
        Now support Portuguese language (lang = "pt")
                
        Modified the way to handle languages and triangles 
        with special characters, but it seems R still 
        remove some of the characters
                
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.14

    2014/04/23  Added texture triangle from Whitney 1911 (USDA)
        (courtesy of Nic Jelinski, University of Minnesota, 
        USA)

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.13

    2014/01/10  A mistake has been corrected in the texture triangle 
        DE.SEA74.TT (Standortserkundungsanweisung SEA 1974 (DE)), 
        for classes "lehmiger Ton" (lT) and "schluffiger 
        Ton" (uT), where a missing vertex has been added.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.12

    2014/01/09  The triangle named FAO50.TT was in fact erroneously 
        named, as it is the HYPRES / European Soil Map 
        texture triangle. The option class.sys = "FAO50.TT" 
        is now giving a warning, and the new option is 
        class.sys = "HYPRES.TT". See the vignette for 
        details.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.11

    2014/01/08 Compiled under R 3.0.2
               
        The functions: TT.check.ps.lim.Xm() and 
        TT.text.transf.Xm() have been moved to the package 
        soiltexturetransformation, available on r-forge
        (https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=740)

        The polish triangle is now loaded at startup, but 
        loading occur within a try() statement, to (try to) 
        prevent possible encoding problems on some platforms.
        A message is issued if the triangle was not loaded 
        properly (but no error or warning).

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.10

    2013/04/29 Compiled under R 3.0.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.9 

    20120307 Removed a useless usage of installed.packages() 
    20120308 Compact the vignettes before R CMD build 

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.8 

    20120125 New attempt to fix xtable package dependence in the vignette.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.7 

    20120106  no visible change (fixed package dependance in vignette) + corrected TT.plot()
        example for Spanish language.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.6 

    20111112  Added the German (GDR) texture triangle for forest soils: 
        "Standortserkundungsanweisung SEA 1974 (DE)" 

CHANGES IN VERSION < 1.2.6

    20111109  New attempt to fix problems while loading the Polish texture triangle 
        under Mac/Darwin and freeBSD.

    20111101  Fixed a potential infinite loop problem in the texture transformation 
        functions based on "drc"

    20111101  Improved handling / loading of the Polish triangle (is not working under 
        Mac). Added the polih triangle to the vignette.

    20100610  New function TT.polygon.centroids() used for a smater calculation 
            of the texture class centroid for better placement of the texture 
            classes labels (used by TT.classes(), itself used by TT.plot()).

    20100607  Added the Romanian texture triangle to the list of pre-defined  texture 
            triangles, and the Romanian language to the list of possible languages 
            for the texture triangle title and axis labels. many thanks to 
            Rosca Bogdan (Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Geography team) for providing 
            the code and translation.

    20100513  Accuracy problems detected in TT.points.in.classes() for texture data 
            located right on the boundary of the triangle (or some texture classes), 
            with some digits after the decimal: due to non-exact trigonometric 
            calculations (around 1E-15), these points may not be classified 
            as on the border, or even belonging to the texture class. These 
            accuracy problems can be partially fixed by a new parameter of 
            TT.points.in.classes(), 'texture2xy' that can be set to FALSE in 
            order to get more accurate classifications. Other accuracy problems 
            still remains, but this time in the underlying point.in.polygon() 
            function. There is no easy fix to this:
            <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-May/239035.html>
            No fix are planned in the close future to fix this error.
            Thanks to Wei Shangguan (see below) for pointing this 'bug'.

    20100513  Added the ISSS (not to be confused with the 'Australian ISSS') 
            texture triangle to the 
            list of pre-defined texture triangles. Many thanks to Wei Shangguan, 
            PhD from the School of geography of Beijing normal university 
            for providing the code of the triangle.

    20100416  Added the Canadian texture triangle to the list of pre-defined 
            texture triangles.

    20100409  Created an r-forge page for the package and uploaded it to SCM 
            http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=740 

    20100409  Finished documenting the function TT.plot with inlinedocs. Package 
            successfully compiled.

    20091221  The parameter 'fg' is now defunct, and replaced by 'col' that accepts 
            several values (while fg only accepts one). 'fg' still exists as an 
            option, but shouldn't produce any effect.

    20091119  Simplified some redundant code in TT.css2xy(), the function that 
            transforms clay silt sand data into x-y coordinates.

    20091118  Corrected a bug in the function TT.normalise.sum() (that couldn't 
            handle data.frames)

    20091014  Added the Belgian soil texture triangle to the list of pre-defined
            texture triangles (now 8).

    20091013  The TT.mahalanobis() function can now compute a grid of the Mahalanobis 
            distance on log-ratio trasnformation of soil texture data. New option 
            alr, default = FALSE, can be set to TRUE for alr transformation.

    20091013  Added TT.chemometrics.alr(), for additive log-ratio trasnformation of 
            soil texture data. This is a copy of the alr() function in the chemometrics 
            package, with minor modifications for soil texture data. Used internally 
            in TT.mahalanobis().

    20091011  Added TT.normalise.sum(), that normalise the sum of the 3 texture classes
            to text.sum (100%).

    20091011  The options 'pow' and 'q.max.dist' are now set to 0.5 and 50 respectively.
            This is a stronger smoothing than the previous values.

    20091011  TT.iwd() has now a 'q.max.dist' option user to determin 'max.dist' if this 
            last is set to NULL. max.dist is the maximum euclidian distance, between 
            a grid point and a data point. If the distance between the grid point and 
            the data point is higher than max.dist, this point is not used to calculate 
            the iwd value. max.dist default value is 
            quantile( x = euclidian.distances, probs = q.max.dist ) 
        
    20091011  The option value 'z.type = "map"' is now deprecated in TT.plot(). Replaced
            by TT.iwd() and TT.image(), called outside TT.plot().

    20091011  TT.as.image() internal function deprecated. now inside TT.iwd()

    20091011  TT.image.shade() internal function deprecated. now inside TT.iwd() 

    20091011  TT.iwd.image() renamed to TT.iwd(). The function now output a list with 
            a x y grid and z value matrix, ready to be plotted by TT.image(). The 
            function is not plotting the image any more.

    20091011  TT.iwd() internal function is deprecated. The name will be attributed to 
            TT.iwd.image() 

    20091010  TT.baseplot() now has a geo option.	

    20091010  TT.kde2d() function created. Wrapper for MASS function kde2d(), but 
            customized for texture triangles. Results can be displayed by 
            TT.contour(), TT.image(), contour() or image().

    20091010  TT.image() function created. Wrapped for image(), but customized 
            for texture triangles. Used to display x-y-z list data in the same 
            format as 'x' in contour() or image().

    20091010  TT.contour() function created. Wrapped for contour(), but customized 
            for texture triangles. Used to display x-y-z list data in the same 
            format as 'x' in contour() or image().

    20091010  TT.mahalanobis() function created. Wrapper for the function mahalanobis(), 
            but customized for texture triangles. Results can be displayed by 
            TT.contour(), TT.image() [see above], contour() or image(). Calculates the 
            Mahalanobis distance for 2 of the 3 texture classes, on a regular x-y grid, 
            backtransformed into clay silt sand, used to calculate the Mahalanobis 
            distance.

    20091010  Added TT.xy.grid() that generates a regular grid on the 
            x-y axis. Made after part of kde2d

    20091009  Modified TT.plot() function so it accepts an optionnal 'geo' option and an 
            'add' option that behaves like plot(add=TRUE) when non-null. This is intended 
            to allow overplotting a soil texture triangle over a background plotted by 
            another function (i.e. heat map, contour map etc.)

    20091009  Added TT.locator(). This function is equivalent to the locator() function, 
            except that it returns clay silt sand coordinates instead.

    20091009  Added TT.xy2css() a function to convert x-y coordinates into clay silt sand.

    20091009  renamed TT.arrows() to TT.axis.arrows().

    20091009  CHANGE LOG STARTED
