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vol2birdR 1.3.2

  • No changes for users, fixes compiler error and warnings requested by CRAN (#165).

  • keep using HDF5 1.12 API for HDF5>=2 versions (#162).

  • vol2birdR now uses ‘LibTorch’ 2.14.0 by default for mistnet runs, up from 1.12.1. This fixes a failure to load ‘MistNet’ on recent Linux distributions such as Fedora 44. On Intel macOS the default is upgraded to ‘LibTorch’ 2.1.2, the most recent release for which ‘PyTorch’ publishes an x86_64 macOS build (#158).

  • configure now reports the HDF5 flags it detected and warns when the HDF5 library cannot be linked. Fixes a configuration failure on Debian and Ubuntu, where the core HDF5 library is named libhdf5_serial rather than libhdf5 (#162).

vol2birdR 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2026-07-27

  • No changes for users, fixes compiler warnings as requested by CRAN (#160).

vol2birdR 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2026-06-09

New Features

  • Add functionality to create profiles relative to ground level and antenna level (in addition to pre-existing default: sea level) (#138, #142).

  • Add configuration options to vol2bird_config(): (1) groundHeightParam to specify the scan parameter containing digital elevation information for ground level profiles. (2) heightReference to specify the reference height (sea, ground or antenna) (#138, #142).

  • Add height_reference as an output column to csv profile output, adopting VPTS CSV v1.1 format (#154).

  • Add TDWR radar station info (#104). Caution: wavelength of TDWR stations not parsing correctly yet (#155).

  • Align radar locations and antenna heights with latest metadata provided by NCEI (#144).

  • add missing KHDC radar station info (#148).

  • Distinguish between stdout and stderr messages (#142, 67e021f).

Bugfixes

  • fix beam width attribute in polar volume object (#153).

  • Fixes a rare segfault identified on Mac when reading a corrupted NEXRAD file (#102).

  • Improve messaging when reading ill-formatted ODIM hdf5 file (#136).

  • Abort graciously when encountering invalid ray indices in legacy NEXRAD files (#147).

  • Fix console print formatting (#139).

  • Bump to latest versions of Github runner images for continuous integration of tests (#150, #151).

vol2birdR 1.2.1

CRAN release: 2025-09-02

  • Fixes a bucket link to unidata-nexard-level2 in the documentation (#129).

vol2birdR 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2025-09-02

  • Fixes a windows bug in the handling of temporary files that caused rls2odim() and vol2bird() to become unresponsive after reading a corrupted file (#114).

  • Update NEXRAD bucket to unidata-nexrad-level2 (#129).

  • Upgrade to windows-2022 github runner to build mistnet library (#130).

vol2birdR 1.1.1

CRAN release: 2025-06-25

  • Fixes a bug when using a cluttermap in vol2bird_config(). Cluttermaps are now decoded by taking into account the the gain and offset attributes (#122).

vol2birdR 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2025-06-13

  • Change to Rcpp messages for warnings and messages by vol2birdR, to allow message suppression in R (#115, #116).

vol2birdR 1.0.9

CRAN release: 2025-03-28

  • Bugfix for rounding error in seconds of timestamp written in VPTS CSV files for NEXRAD data (#112).

vol2birdR 1.0.8

CRAN release: 2025-03-27

  • Removes a stray DEBUG warning message that isn’t a true warning (#103).
  • Add timestamp seconds to VPTS CSV output (#105).
  • Add mistnet_installed() function to test if mistnet installation is complete (#109).

vol2birdR 1.0.7

CRAN release: 2025-02-21

  • Fixes a segfault that occurred for mistnet runs on data with missing parameters (#29).
  • Reinstalls no longer require a redownload of mistnet library files by using persistent cache (#94).
  • Upgrade mistnet library build runners to macos-latest and ubuntu-latest (#66,#69).

vol2birdR 1.0.6

CRAN release: 2025-02-07

  • Fix warning message pj_obj_create: Cannot find proj.db (#50)
  • Added an automatic mistnet library build for M1 macs (#82)

vol2birdR 1.0.5

CRAN release: 2024-09-27

Addresses several build warning messages as required by CRAN

  • Fixed broken hdf5 info link (c628cae)
  • Suppressed warnings associated with Rtools43 for Windows builds (aee7ca9)
  • Added overflow check for nCells (e6bd1bd)
  • Explicitly specified C++17 standard in Windows build (aee7ca9)

vol2birdR 1.0.4

CRAN release: 2024-08-22

  • Reduced loading messages for mistnet (#72)
  • Updated linking for Rtools44 compatibility (#73, #74)

vol2birdR 1.0.3

CRAN release: 2024-07-13

  • Refactored conditional linking of rtools43 dependencies (#60)
  • Removed unused param from documentation in cpp_vol2bird_version()
  • Made write binary mode explicit for Windows Server compatibility (#57)
  • Fixed a rare segfault on specific nexrad files with missing velocity data (#61)

vol2birdR 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2024-01-19

  • Refactored linking of lsharpyuv according to rtools43 instructions (#54,#55,#56)
  • Changed package maintainer

vol2birdR 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2023-05-19

  • Added pkg-config as a dependency on linux systems and M1 Mac
  • Added check_proj to m4 files which checks for the PROJ library
  • Corrected minor typos

vol2birdR 1.0.0

  • Initial CRAN release. All issues included in this release can be found here.

vol2birdR 0.2.2

  • New macros for locating system libraries.
  • Fixes for valgrind additional warnings
  • Adding information on contributors and copyright holders to DESCRIPTION file

vol2birdR 0.2.1

Changes to how system libraries are located to fix failing build on M1 Mac on CRAN

vol2birdR 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2022-11-16

Initial CRAN reviewed version of new package