fetchR v2.0-0
Major changes
- fetchR is now generalised to incorporate
SpatialPolyonsrepresenting any
marine location on Earth (#6). As a result, fetchR 2.0 is no longer limited
to calculating wind fetch within New Zealand coastal areas.
Rewrite the entire algorithm for calculating wind fetch.
-
The
rgeos::gBufferfunction is used to calculate the end points of the fetch
vectors at their maximum distance. -
The interactions between the fetch vectors and the coastlines, or any of the
polygons, are calculated with thergeos::gIntersectionfunction as opposed to
the slow, iterative algorithm used by the package's predecessors. -
Computation times are dramatically decreased.
Minor changes
Create a vignette for the package; vignette("introduction-to-fetchR").