emuR 1.0.0

new features / performance tweaks / improvements

• implemented new consistentOutputType parameter for get_trackdata() to always return a trackdata or emuRtrackdata object independent of what the cut and npoints arguments are set to
• now removing levelCanvasOrder entry in remove_levelDefinition() (fixes #156)
• serve() method now uses GET to deliver media files to the EMU-webApp. This avoids the base64 conversion overhead and is a quite significant load time improvement
• explicit error message in convert_legacyEmuDB() when invalid redundant links are found
• better error message in BPF parser
• convert_legacyEmuDB() automatically converts .ssd media files to .wav and normalizes the annotations to start at 0 (only if attr(ssd,'startTime') is not 0).
• added sort() S3 method for emuRsegs objects
• checking for badly sorted emuRsegs in requery_hier() and requery_seq() functions
• create_emuRtrackdata() returns a simple data.frame object not a data.table object
• emuRtrackdata object now contains a times_norm (normalized time values between 0 and 1 for each segment) column by default
• added note to print.emuRsegs() to give the user a hint about missing columns
• implemented print.emuRtrackdata() to avoid overly verbose output
• implemented normalize_length() function as S3 function to normalize the lenght of each segment in an emuRtrackdata object
• added absolute_file_path column to output of list_files()
• query engine does not rely on label index in label array any more (updated convert_queryResultToEmuRsegs() to use resultAttrDef instead of labelIdx). Closes #164.
• added browser argument to serve() function which is passed on to utils::browseURL() function
• requery_seq() now uses start_item_seq_idx and end_item_seq_idx of seglist instead of start_item_id and start_item_id to simplify function
• implemented check_emuDBhandle() function that is used on every exported function that takes a emuDBhandle as an argument to check if the handle is still valid (closes #176)
• implemented "tibble" as resultType option in get_trackdata(). This will probably replace the "emuRtrackdata" option in future (it contains exactly the same data/columns).
• prechecking if attribute definition is already defined (closes #182)
• get_trackdata() now uses temporary SQL tables to store the intermediate results (massive performance gains!). Removed nrOfAllocationRows parameter as this is no longer needed as no matrix is used to store the intermediate results. (also closes #125)
• convert_TextGridCollectio() using dir.exists() instead of file.exists() to check dirs
• all read operations now use the readr package (avoids encoding problems like #187)
• list_attributeDefinitions() now allows for a name vector to be passed in
• rewrite of rewrite_allAnnots() functions for faster rewrites of _annot.json files to disk
• improved cleanup in testing DBconfig functions
• now ordering by items_idx not by start_start_seq_idx which led to bad label sequences (fixes #140)

bug fixes

• fixed problem of updating cache. Didn't handle data.frame object that was thought to be a vector correctly!
• fixed a bug in the BPF export function, which meant that WAVE files were only copied into one session
• added missing $ in pattern arguments in list.files call in list_files (fixes #170)
• not adding ssffTrackDefinition to DBconfig if user input is no (closes #171)
• fixed bad seq_start_seq_idx and seq_seq_idx returned by requery_seq() (fixes #183)
• fixed bad seq_start_seq_idx returned by internal query_databaseHier() function
• fixed bad sorting of requery_seq()/requery_hier() when calcTimes = F (still sorted by start_sample instead of the correct seq_idx)
• added readr::parse_character() to data received in serve() as this is recoded in windows (fixes #188).