vismeteor 2.0.2

Changes

• Clarified documentation and vignettes for vmgeom and vmideal models, including improved mathematical notation and explanations.
• Hidden internal parameters from exported function documentation to reduce user confusion.

vismeteor 2.0.1

Changes

• Updated README guidance, vignettes, and roxygen references to clarify data sources, models, and to correct documentation errors.
• Improved the performance of vmgeomVstFromMagn() and vmidealVstFromMagn() by tightening the interpolation steps used during the variance-stabilising transforms.
• Streamlined the vmtable() rounding routine to reduce allocations.
• Added a GitHub Actions workflow to run package checks automatically.
• Documented the derivation scripts in inst/derivation/ to improve reproducibility.
• Added load_vmdb() regression tests.

vismeteor 2.0.0

Highlights

This release introduces variance-stabilizing transformations for the ideal distribution of visual meteor magnitudes (vmidealVstFromMagn()) as well as for visual meteor magnitudes under a geometric distribution (vmgeomVstFromMagn()).

Other changes

The function vmperception() now better matches the perception probabilities of Koschack & Rendtel (1990b).
The argument deriv.degree has been removed, as it was only intended for internal testing and had no practical relevance for regular use.

Laplace-transformed perception probabilities have been replaced by variance-stabilizing transformations, which also means that the function vmperception.l() has been removed.

Note: This release includes breaking changes and is not fully backward compatible due to the removal of parameters and functions.

vismeteor 1.8.5

• Initial CRAN release