NEWS

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SimSurvey 0.1.6 (2023-09-19)

• Switch to dependence on the sf and stars package rather than the sp and raster package given the evolution of R spatial
• Switch to new INLAspacetime functions for simulating from a barrier mesh

SimSurvey 0.1.5 (2022-04-06)

• Add informative error if NaN values are generated using sim_distribution
• Fix showscale problem in sim_distribution; was supplying a logical vector when length should have been 1
• Allow for more flexible simulation of sets by adding an argument to sim_sets called subset_cells and a custom_sets argument to sim_survey
• Add number of fish available to the survey (I = N * q) to the sp_N object when running sim_survey

SimSurvey 0.1.4 (2022-01-26)

• Add a "bezier" method to make_grid
• Allow a vector of age-specific parameters to be supplied to sim_parabola plus add some options for defining a more asymmetric parabola
• Speed up sim_sets and ensure sample call passes new error traps
• Fix bug in plotting scripts; plotly returns an error if supplied xtabs class data
• Improve vis_fit function

SimSurvey 0.1.3 (2021-01-13)

• Simplify make_grid function to improve the splits of the divisions and strata
• CRAN request: change doi in DESCRIPTION to preferred format

SimSurvey 0.1.2 (2020-09-09)

• Initial release to CRAN

SimSurvey 0.1.1

• Initial release documented in Regular et al. (2020) <doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232822>