# CSTools 5.1.1 (Release date: 19-10-2023) ### Fixes - Added startR namespace in all CST_Start calls of the vignettes and sample data. # CSTools 5.1.0 (Release date: 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 5.0.1 (Release date: 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 5.0.0 (Release date: 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 4.1.1 (Release date: 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 4.1.0 (Release date: 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 4.0.1 (Release date: 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 4.0.0 (Release date: 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 3.1.0 (Release date: 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 # CSTools 3.0.0 (Release date: 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 2.0.0 (Release date: 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