Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rOmniDriver 0.1.20-2 (2025-07-26)

• Documentation update. No change to R code.

rOmniDriver 0.1.20 (2024-03-29)

• Check that we pass only finite values to OmniDriver functions for integration time and at least 1 as number of scans. This change only triggers a more informative error message.
• Revise start up messages for clarity as the lack of an OmniDriver installation is not a problem when using ‘ooacquire’ to do computations on previously acquired raw counts data.
• Tested good with OmniDriver 2.72.
• Update installation instructions, adding the R-Universe repository.

rOmniDriver 0.1.19

• Fix bug behind failure to initialize the high-resolution-time API wrapper in the Ocean Optics Java code.

rOmniDriver 0.1.18

• Add support for high speed acquisition: wrapper functions highSpdAcq_allocate_buffer, highSpdAcq_start_acquisition(), highSpdAcq_get_spectrum() and highSpdAcq_get_time_stamp().
• Add support for handling of high resolution time stamps and time differences based on them.

rOmniDriver 0.1.17

• Address API changes in OmniDriver >= 2.70/2.71.

rOmniDriver 0.1.16

• Address API changes in OmniDriver >= 2.70.

rOmniDriver 0.1.15

• Tweak messages emitted when loading the package.
• Set R option "OmniDriver.offline" during loading to reflect success or failure of initialization.

rOmniDriver 0.1.14

• Add set_USB_timeout() and is_USB_timeout().
• Edit set_timeout() and is_timeout() as ‘OmniDriver’ does not always provide the Java methods setTimeout and isTimeout.
• Add function is_api_enabled().
• Add check for success of API initialization in function init_api().
• Add preliminary (untested) support for I2C and SPI buses.
• Move repository from BitBucket to GitHub.
• Test with USB2000 (under Windows 10, FX/2 firmware updated to 2.51.0).
• Test good with OmniDriver 2.56.
• Update README to better explain all the steps needed to install the this package as well as OmniDriver.
• Update documentation to reflect that the company Ocean Optics has been renamed Ocean Insight.

rOmniDriver 0.1.13

• Add brief installation instructions to README.
• Fix bug affecting OS X and Linux.
• Improve on-load diagnosis and messages.
• Tested good with OmniDriver 2.46.

rOmniDriver 0.1.12

• Add support for features “internal trigger” and method “getLastException”.

rOmniDriver 0.1.11

• Add support for retrieval of irradiance calibration factors from instrument firmware.

rOmniDriver 0.1.10

• Fix bug: missing formal parameter for ch.index.

rOmniDriver 0.1.9

• Add example scripts to installation.

rOmniDriver 0.1.8

• Add support for multi-channel spectrometers. The changes should not affect any existing scripts for single-channel instruments. However, it requires a recent version of the runtime from Ocean Optics (API version 2.40 or newer).

rOmniDriver 0.1.7

• Add several functions needed for more general use. Still many are not implemented including support for special “features” and triggers.

rOmniDriver 0.1.6

• Added function get_integration_time().

rOmniDriver 0.1.5

• Added functions get_name() and get_serial_number().

rOmniDriver 0.1.4

• Rebuilt with R 3.1.0
• No .jar files included with package.
• At initialization reads the environment variable set during the OmniDriver runtime installation, sets the path for the Java class calls accordingly.
• This means that the package does not include any code from Ocean Optics.

rOmniDriver 0.1.3

• Rebuilt with R 3.0.3 and the documentation improved so that the current version of ‘roxygen2’ does not fail with a fatal error.

rOmniDriver 0.1.2

Working in some simple tests with the Maya2000Pro in the prototype of ‘MayaControl’.