NEWS

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whalestrike 0.6.2 (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

• Fix typo in help for whaleMassFromLength(), in which the exponents on L showed only the first digit.

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

• Improve app().

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.