{Disarmed} Re: [distance-sampling] Error convert.units is deprecated

[Eric Rexstad]

Good morning Martin

There were modifications to the names of some arguments in release 1.0.5 of Distance placed on CRAN in March of 2022.  Those name changes were listed in the "NEWS" portion of that release (see below) and posted on the distancesampling.org​ blog (http://distancesampling.org/blog/2022/03/17/distance-r-package-updates):

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Distance 1.0.5
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* To improve consistency in functions and arguments in the package, some functions and arguments have changed from . separation to _. An error is now thrown when the "old" arguments/functions using . are used. This error will be removed in Distance 1.0.6.
  * create.bins() -> create_bins()
  * bootdht():
    * convert.units -> convert_units
  * ds():
    * dht.group       -> dht_group
    * region.table    -> region_table
    * sample.table    -> sample_table
    * obs.table       -> obs_table
    * convert.units   -> convert_units
    * er.var          -> er_var
    * debug.level     -> debug_level
    * initial.values  -> initial_values
    * max.adjustments -> max_adjustments
* fix bootdht issue when cluster results were requests (#103)
* improve flatfile documentation (thanks to Maggie Blake for pointing this out)
* fixed bug in cutpoint calculations in create.bins (#108)
* order argument to ds() is now only used to specify order, to fix a given number of adjustments use the new argument nadj (see ?ds for more info)
* fix bug where polynomial adjustments started at the wrong order (2 rather than 4)

The snippet of code you sent will again work fine by simply changing the name of the argument convert.units​ to convert_units​.

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From: distance...@googlegroups.com <distance...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Martin Poot <mjm...@gmail.com>
Sent: 12 August 2022 16:29
To: distance-sampling <distance...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [distance-sampling] Error convert.units is deprecated

 

Dear all,

My scripts of Distance in R are not working anymore. 

The following error message I get:

 wren.hn <- ds(data=wren_lt,
+               key="hn",
+               adjustment=NULL,
+               convert.units=conversion.factor)

Error in .deprecated_args(c("dht.group", "region.table", "sample.table",  :
  Argument: convert.units is deprecated, check documentation.

What has gone wrong? I have recently updated R to 4.2.1. Also updated the last version of Distance.

with best wishes,

Martin Poot

 

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