Updating description, news and README

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 Package: RNiftyReg
-Version: 2.6.8
-Date: 2020-03-31
+Version: 2.7.0
+Date: 2020-09-10
 Title: Image Registration Using the 'NiftyReg' Library
-Authors@R: c(person("Jon","Clayden",role=c("cre","aut"),email="code@clayden.org"),
-             person("Marc","Modat",role="aut"),
-             person("Benoit","Presles",role="aut"),
-             person("Thanasis","Anthopoulos",role="aut"),
-             person("Pankaj","Daga",role="aut"))
+Authors@R: c(person("Jon", "Clayden", role=c("cre","aut"), email="code@clayden.org", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-6608-0619")),
+             person("Marc", "Modat", role="aut"),
+             person("Benoit", "Presles", role="aut"),
+             person("Thanasis", "Anthopoulos", role="aut"),
+             person("Pankaj", "Daga", role="aut"))
 Maintainer: Jon Clayden <code@clayden.org>
-Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), RNifti (>= 0.4.0), ore
-Suggests: jpeg, loder, mmand, testthat (>= 0.11.0), covr
+Imports: Rcpp, RNifti, ore
+Suggests: jpeg, loder, mmand, testthat, covr
 LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppEigen, RNifti
 Description: Provides an 'R' interface to the 'NiftyReg' image registration tools
     <http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyreg/>. Linear and nonlinear registration

NEWS

@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@ Significant changes to the RNiftyReg package are laid out below for each release
 
 =================================================================================
 
+VERSION 2.7.0
+
+- New functions saveTransform() and loadTransform() allow a linear transform to
+  be serialised, complete with source and target image metadata, into a single
+  compact RDS file. This does not yet work with nonlinear transforms, because
+  of their more complex metadata. (Suggested by Yves Rozenholc and Christine
+  Keribin.)
+- There is now an asNifti() method for "niftyreg" objects, for use with RNifti
+  version 1.2.0 and above. This allows, for example, writeNifti() to be called
+  directly on the result of a registration. (Suggested by @charleswg, issue
+  #10.)
+
+=================================================================================
+
 VERSION 2.6.8
 
 - Mask images without a valid "qform" would lead to inaccurate resampling and

README.Rmd

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse=TRUE, fig.path="tools/figures/", dpi=150, fig.dim
 
 # RNiftyReg: Nifty Registration in R
 
-The `RNiftyReg` package is an R-native interface to the [NiftyReg image registration library](http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyreg/) developed within the Translational Imaging Group at University College London. The package incorporates the library, so it does not need to be installed separately, and it replaces the NiftyReg command-line front-end with a direct, in-memory bridge to R, based on [Rcpp](http://www.rcpp.org).
+The `RNiftyReg` package is an R-native interface to the [NiftyReg image registration library](https://github.com/KCL-BMEIS/niftyreg). The package incorporates the library, so it does not need to be installed separately, and it replaces the NiftyReg command-line front-end with a direct, in-memory bridge to R, based on [the `RNifti` package](https://github.com/jonclayden/RNifti).
 
 This `README` file primarily covers version 2.0.0 of the package and later. The interface was substantially reworked in that version to make it more natural and less verbose, and earlier versions are incompatible. Information on [moving from prior versions of `RNiftyReg` to 2.x](#upgrading-to-rniftyreg-2x) is included at the end of this file.
 

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # RNiftyReg: Nifty Registration in R
 
-The `RNiftyReg` package is an R-native interface to the [NiftyReg image registration library](http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyreg/) developed within the Translational Imaging Group at University College London. The package incorporates the library, so it does not need to be installed separately, and it replaces the NiftyReg command-line front-end with a direct, in-memory bridge to R, based on [Rcpp](http://www.rcpp.org).
+The `RNiftyReg` package is an R-native interface to the [NiftyReg image registration library](https://github.com/KCL-BMEIS/niftyreg). The package incorporates the library, so it does not need to be installed separately, and it replaces the NiftyReg command-line front-end with a direct, in-memory bridge to R, based on [the `RNifti` package](https://github.com/jonclayden/RNifti).
 
 This `README` file primarily covers version 2.0.0 of the package and later. The interface was substantially reworked in that version to make it more natural and less verbose, and earlier versions are incompatible. Information on [moving from prior versions of `RNiftyReg` to 2.x](#upgrading-to-rniftyreg-2x) is included at the end of this file.