Changelog

Acknowledgements

The hyperSpec team gratefully acknowledges support from the Google Summer of Code program, which sponsored student Erick Oduniyi during summer 2020. Erick and the team carried out a significant overhaul of hyperSpec which led to this major release.

NEWS.md (this file) added so that users can readily see changes that may affect the use of the package.
Documentation now available in pkgdown sites (https://r-hyperspec.github.io/).
Introductory vignette reorganized and enhanced, thanks to Bryan Hanson.
Portions of hyperSpec were spun out into their own packages for ease of maintenance. ELABORATE
- Dataset chondro was moved to package hySpc.chondro (https://r-hyperspec.github.io/hySpc.chondro/).
- Functions qplotspc(), qplotmap(), qplotc(), qplotmixmap(), legendright(), qmixtile(), normalize.colrange(), normalize.range(), normalize.null(), normalize.minmax(), qmixlegend(), colmix.rgb() were deprecated due analogous functionality in package hySpc.ggplot2 (https://r-hyperspec.github.io/hySpc.ggplot2/).
Dataset faux_cell and function generate_faux_cell replace chondro dataset (#125, #156, #180, #229).
Function spc.NA.linapprox(), which was deprecated for long time, is now completely removed (#239).
Column names in spectra matrix ($spc column of hyperSpec object) are now returned correctly by functions spc.bin() (#237), and spc.loess() (#245).

Note: this listing is for the benefit of developers, and should summarize significant infrastructure changes.
Vignettes converted to .Rmd and formatted consistently, thanks to Vilmantas Gegzna.
Package hySpc.testthat is now used for unit testing (#228).