CSTools 4.0.1

Submission date to CRAN: XX-06-2021

• New features:
  • 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

Submission date to CRAN: 23-02-2021

• New features:
  • 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

Submission date to CRAN: 02-07-2020

• New features:
  • 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

Submission date to CRAN: 10-02-2020

• New features:
  • 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

Submission date to CRAN: 25-11-2019

• New features:
  • 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
• Minor fix in CST_BiasCorrection when checking parameter ‘obs’
• Addapting CST_Load to use ‘as.s2dv_cube’ function
• Minor fix in data lonlat_prec to be of class ‘s2dv_cube’
• Minor fix in RainFARM vignette
• Adding reference to S2S4E H2020 project into the DESCRIPTION file
• Adding NEWS.md file

CSTools 1.0.1

Release date on CRAN: 19-06-2019

• 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 on CRAN: 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