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whalestrike 0.6.2

CRAN release: 2026-03-06

Address CRAN comments on a submission of 0.6.0, including the following.

  • The on.exit() function is called immediately after calls to par().
  • In the DESCRIPTION file, the use of backticks has been removed for words that are not package names. I had tried doing this in version 0.6.1 as a way to prevent warnings about spelling (which occur even though the words are listed in inst/WORDLIST). For reference, the words (as reported with a remote test using R version 4.5.2 Patched) are: “Lethality”, “lethality” and “whalestrike”. (The last of these is enclosed in backticks, as it is the name of an R package.)

whalestrike 0.6.1

Address CRAN comments on a submission of 0.6.0, including the following.

  • Add a full paragraph for Description, in the DESCRIPTION file.
  • Change http-type reference to doi-type references, in the DESCRIPTION file.
  • Document return values from all functions.
  • Save par values before plotting, returning to original values afterwards.
  • app_2025() saves configuration to a temporary file, not a user-space file.
  • Trim an example in the documentation for strike() so it performs in under 1s on my machine.

In addition, add a citation to the whaleMeasurements() documentation for AM’s Zenodo new entry on whale measurements.

whalestrike 0.6.0

  • Add shipMassFromLength().
  • Add shipLength().
  • Update app() to use collapsible GUI elements and to have pull-down menus for ship type and whale species, the selection of which alters the sliders that set for ship and whale properties.

whalestrike 0.5.1

whalestrike 0.5.0

  • Add a DOI for a cited paper. Bump version number, for the JOSS revision.

whalestrike 0.4.4

  • Update app2() to have popup information, as suggested by a Hansen Johnson, who was a second reviewer of the JOSS manuscript. The code and the JOSS paper were also altered as suggested in Johnson’s review.

whalestrike 0.4.3

  • Update code to address documentation problems reported in issues #25, #26 and #27, as well as comments on the vignette. For all of these, I thank JOSS reviewer Alexandra Mayette.
  • Update year of Kelley et al. “assessing” paper to 2021 throughout all documentation (issue #28).

whalestrike 0.4.2

  • Create a video recording demonstrating app2().
  • Add app2(), an improved version of app().
  • Subdivide code into smaller files; improve formatting.
  • Document overall package in the newly required way.

whalestrike 0.4.1

  • Delint code.
  • Fix warnings that would have appeared in a CRAN submission

whalestrike 0.4.0

  • Improve website using the pkgdown package
  • Improve documentation, including switching

whalestrike 0.3.1

  • Improve documentation.

whalestrike 0.3.0

whalestrike 0.2.0

  • Use 4-layer system: skin, blubber, sub-layer, and bone.
  • Use exponential stress-strain relationships.

whalestrike 0.1.0

  • First version, with skin, blubber, and a ‘sub-layer’.
  • Use linear stress-strain relationship.