natverse/nat: nat 1.10.3

nat 1.10.3

Some new features, speed-ups and bug fixes including from @dokato and @jonmarty. Thanks to @PostPreAndCleft and @artxz for bug reports.

• xyzmatrix can now get and set character columns containing coordinates in forms like "(1, 6, 3)" or "1 6 3" (#449)
• also a bug fix for the same (#451)
• Improve reading of Simple Neurite Tracer fills (#448)
• Fix bug pan3d() not found (#447)
• Added support for multi material binary Amira surface files while fixing "Bad triangle numbers" error in read.hxsurf() (#445)
• reroot function added with support for neuronlist (#463, @dokato).
• Add xform() and xyzmatrix<-() methods for mesh3d objects
• Don't clean mesh3d objects read from ply files by default
• summary.neuron now prints number of subtrees (#462, @dokato)
• fixes in xyzmatrix.list() (#484)
• new c.hxsurf() method (#482, @dokato
• Teach write.neuron() and write.neurons() to put metadata in SWC header
• switch to GitHub actions
• speed-ups for simplify_neuron() in part through new natcpp package (#472,#473,#474)
• Fix Strahler order fails on a simplified neuron with no branches (#464 @dokato)
• add function for rerooting neuron reroot.neuron() and reroot.neuronlist() (#463, @dokato)
• New neuronlistz() fast access to neuronlists stored as zip files (#456)
• print method for neuronlistz() (#468, #466 @dokato)
• pointsinside: defer check for Rvcg until committed to use it (#455,454)
• Zip command line character limit error fix (#452 @jonmarty)

https://github.com/natverse/nat/issues?q=closed%3A2020-09-11..2021-09-20+

This release brings support for reading, plotting and writing 3D surface meshes of neurons into line with the skeleton support. It also includes an essential fix requested by CRAN.

https://github.com/natverse/nat/issues?q=closed%3A2020-02-23..2020-09-11+

• Fix test failure on R-devel (R 4.1) for c.neuronlist (#444)
• Add print.neuron(), print.neuronlist(),print.dotprops() methods #443
• Better support for reading / plotting neuron meshes (#441, #442)
• Bug in xyzmatrix() for 0 row data.frames (#433)
• Updated parameter for toggling grid lines in plotly (#432)
• Add support for Amira hxsurf binary format to read.hxsurf() (#431)
• improve error message for cmtk.version() (#430)
• Remaining items to move from elmr (#428)
• Turn off grid lines when using plotly engine (#427)
• Move features to nat from other packages (#423)
• Add support for thin plate spine transformations via tpsreg() (#289)

• @jonmarty made their first contribution in https://github.com/natverse/nat/pull/452
• @dokato made their first contribution in https://github.com/natverse/nat/pull/459

Full Changelog: https://github.com/natverse/nat/compare/v1.10.1...v1.10.3