General

• Updated target .NET framework to 4.5.1
• Updated RDotNet and ReoGrid packages to latest version
• Model dialogs can now save fitted values, residuals, leverage back to data
• FIle > New Data Frame dialog expanded to include options for defining a data frame through commands
• wakefield packaged now loaded on startup for use in New Data Frame dialog
• Added geom_col to geoms list and added colour parameter to geom_smooth
• Added filter and summary options to Show Non-numeric Values dialog
• Sort dialog clears previously used columns when accessing from right click menu
• Fixed bug in graphics sub dialogs causing crash when no data frame loaded
• Bug fixed in Make Date dialog - OK enabled correctly

Climatic

• Bug fixes and additional options added to PICSA Rainfall graph dialog
• Tidy daily data dialog now accepts NA logical columns in case of missing years
• Added missing value code option and bug fixes in Export to CPT dialog
• Added checkbox to Import shape file dialog to include calculated longitude and latitude columns
• Added Logical and Date column as options to End of Rains dialog
• Minor restructure of climatic menu
• Typo fixed in spells dialog

General

• implemented a variable function name when combining (and splitting) multiple variables name into a list from a multiple receiver #5009
• Enhancing Base Buttons Comments- Making the comments box multi line and adding formatting features #4940
• Including the facet.grid option in the Two Variable Frequencies dialog #5027
• Adding geom_mosaic to list of geoms #5028
• Adding Mosaic Plots menu on main form #5029
• Included Mosaic Plots dialog #5012
• updating R Packages

Procurement

• Restructuring procurement menu #5032
• Added Uganda procurement data to the library #5031
• added Open From Library to procurement menu #5033

General

• Added the updated help file #5000
• Acknowledgments added to the help menu #4999
• Conversions and general fit modeling dialog added to main form #4998
• Updating help IDs #4996 #4980
• Enhancing script window features #4988
• Enhancing Add Key dialog to fix bug when check unique is clicked and receivers is empty #4979
• New Subdialog to select months #4968
• fixed the Export open refine dialog bug for new names on load #4962
• Enhanced One Way Frequencies dialog and improving output #4954
• Fixed bug with single type receiver resetting correctly #4948
• Renamed instat_object class to DataBook, R-Instat's instance of this to data_book, data_object class to DataSheet #4943
• Added Comment subdialog #4939
• Log Window Functionality Addition- Enhancing right clicks #4938
• Hiding and showing of commands in the output window. #4937
• Enhancing Summaries subdialog #4914 #4905

Climatic

• Saving a column of fitted values on Standard Precipitation Index(SPI) dialog #4992
• Added the PICSA Rainfall graphs #4990 #4991 #4970 #4879
• Added Rainfall Quality Control at Month level for Checking of dry month #4972
• Fixing Climsoft dialog password widget bug #4967
• Added Splitting the geometry feature on Importing Shape file #4966
• Climatic Maps renamed to station maps #4965
• Adding options to work with non-day units on Make date #4960 #4958
• Conversions dialog added to convert from different units #4953
• Adding the Omit Zero in Qc Rainfall. #4950
• Fixed bug with shifted 365 doy calculation #4945
• Enhancing use date dialog #4934
  -Added Map options #4927
• Enabling Evapotranspiration dialog on main form #4923
• Improvements on tidy data dialog for the year options to allow for multiple stations and elements #4910
• Enhancing Climatic summary to allow for day in year #4909
• improved output messages when infilling dates #4907
• Includes the Station maps dialog #4851
• Adding geom_sf to list of geoms #4834
• Added Transform dialog and R code for Spells to include Multiple Spells #4814

General

• Improvements for converting columns: Integer to Numeric conversion now forces type to change to numeric (useful when merging on numeric columns) and option added to do a "simple" convert to numeric (ignoring any non numeric values) and a convert to factor which ignores existing labels #4856
• Added options in Make Date dialog to have single value for year/month/day (useful for making a Date column with monthly or yearly data) #4853
• Merge dialog now displays merging columns on main dialog (and will not allow a merge attempt without any merging columns) #4859
• Improved toolbar icons at better resolution #4061
• View Last graph button added to toolbar (and last graph details stored in instat object)
• Fixed bug causing R-Instat to crash if recent files file is corrupted #4882
• Added stat_summary to available geoms #4600
• Clearing the Output Window moves from the toolbar to the Output Window's right click menu #4868
• Importing an instat object now fully compatible with older file versions #4867
• Modified layout on Use date dialog #4844

Climatic

• New "Tidy daily data" dialog to reshape wide daily data into a "tidy" long format #4869
• New "Compare" dialog to calculate difference, absolute differences, and anomalies from two columns e.g. satellite estimates and station observations #4885
• New "Export To CM SAF R Toolbox" dialog to export a climatic data frame as an .RData file in a standard format required for use in CM SAF R Toolbox #4883
• New dialog to import shapefiles #4847
• Added option to include an ID column when importing multiple points from NET cdf file (useful if merging with station data) #4848
• Day of year sub dialog selection now correctly accounts for a shifted day of year #4870
• Fixed bug in QC Rainfall dialog with the "Same" option #4857

General

• .NET Framework is no longer included in the full installer. This is due to various issues, particularly that .NET Framework often will not install as part of another installation process so this simplifies installation, reduces errors and reduces download size. The R-Instat website will have clear instructions on updating .NET. (#4841)
• New options for dealing with missing values in Column Summaries dialog (and other summary dialogs). A number or percentage threshold of missing values can be specified for summaries. e.g. return missing if more than 10 missing values or return missing if more than 5% missing values. (#4701)
• New dialog under Prepare > Check Data to identify problem values in a numeric column that has imported as character (#4776)
• New dialog under Prepare > Check Data to anonymise an ID column using a hash function.
• Improved layout of the Use Date dialog to have a more sensible grouping of choices (#4755)
• The Make Date dialog now correctly returns a missing date on day 60 in non leap years when creating a date column from a year and 366 length day of year column (#4842)
• The duplicates dialog has an additional option to give the index number of the duplicates. (#4757)
• Facets now has the option to the include variable name in the labels (#4816)
• The correlations dialog once again gives correlation values in upper half of the graph matrix output (#4815)
• Improvements on the Calculator dialog (additional logical buttons, better spacing around operators) (#4833)

Climatic

• The define climatic data dialog now adds a key to the data as part of the defining process and hence requires that there are no duplicate dates (within a station). The dialog also now allows the user to do a basic check for duplicates. (#4725)
• Improved R code for Export to CPT dialog (#4824)
• The default receiver on many climatic dialog is now more sensible, usually the element receiver (#4765)
• Bug fixes in the rainfall QC dialog (#4660, #4742)
• Bug fixes in the temperature QC dialog (#4746)
• Further options added to the Climatic Boxplots dialog (#4668)

This release includes climatic components required for Malawi workshop.

This is the version released for Haiti workshop.