NEWS

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area 0.3.0

• New triangle_surface_area() function for calculating triangle areas in 2D or 3D. Accepts a matrix with 2 or 3 columns; for 2D input, z coordinates default to zero. This provides a general interface for triangle area calculations without the signed area semantics of triangle_area().

area 0.2.0 (2023-12-21)

• Improved C++ sum method to match benchmarks (from 2023 advent of code Day 18, see https://github.com/hypertidy/area/issues/4). Thanks to Tan Ho, Jonathan Carroll, and Rich FitzJohn.

area 0.1.0 (2023-04-04)

• Now use cpp11.

• Added C++ versions of triangle and polygon area.

• Begin conversion to C++ headers capability.

area 0.0.1

• First working version using R code only.