NEWS

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actiread 0.7.0

• Added acti_read_genea()/acti_read_genea_header() for original 'Genea' .bin files and acti_read_parmay_matrix()/acti_read_parmay_matrix_header() for 'Parmay Tech Matrix' .bin files, with example data (acti_example_genea(), acti_example_parmay_matrix()) from 'GGIRread'.
• acti_read() now inspects the first kilobyte of .bin files (and files with unknown extensions) to choose between GENEActiv, Genea, Matrix, and CWA, and dispatches .bz2 and .xz compressed files.
• tzoffset_to_tz() now returns the correctly-signed Etc/GMT zone ("-05:00" is "Etc/GMT+5") and gives informative errors.
• acti_read_gt3x(apply_tz = TRUE) now handles non-whole-hour offsets, shows the corrected times in tz (previously a non-UTC tz gave shifted times), and tz = NULL keeps the header's fixed-offset zone instead of the system time zone.
• CWA and GT3X readers no longer error on zero-row data or a missing first time; acti_py_read_cwa() accepts tz = NULL.
• acti_read_cwa_header() uses the fast header parser, and acti_read_geneactiv_header() no longer reads the whole file.
• acti_read_geneactiv() gains apply_tz.
• Header acceleration_min/acceleration_max are now numeric for all readers.
• acti_read_sensorlogger() always returns a list for zip files, and acti_read_sensorlogger_location() uses its column specification and fills missing columns with NA.
• acti_rewrite_sensorlog_csv() handles quoted fields containing commas and columns after the battery fields.
• Readers now give a clear error for files that do not exist.

actiread 0.6.0

• Added acti_read() to guess the reader from CWA, GT3X, and GENEActiv file extensions, including .gz compressed files.

actiread 0.5.0 (2026-08-21)

• Added acti_decompress_file() to decompress supported activity-data files.
• Added a fast internal CWA-header parser for the Python reader, preserving the native CWA header and appending the actipy processing summary.
• Reused centralized decompression across CWA, GENEActiv, and Python readers.
• Marked the optional Python CWA example as \\dontrun{} to avoid Python startup time during package checks.

actiread 0.4.0

• Adding in 'GENEActiv' readers.

actiread 0.3.0 (2026-07-15)

• Fixing bug in setting header if no accrange in acti_gt3x_process_time and acti_cwa_process_time.
• Added in acti_process_header to normalize this.

actiread 0.2.0 (2026-07-07)

• CRAN Re-submission.

actiread 0.1.0

• read.gt3x digits argument passed.
• CRAN Submission.

actiread 0.0.2

• Added actiread functions to read activity data from a file.