1.2.0 candidate

[sigmafelix]

Hi @mitchellmanware, could you review this change for 1.2.0 candidate? I think this version is worth getting a version number of major update since we no longer support multithreaded calculation.

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Major changes

• future and future.apply dependency removed: calculate_modis_par() and calculate_nlcd()
• Downstream changes per dropping future dependency:
  • Examples
  • Tests for the two functions are modified per dropping nthreads argument
  • calculate_covariates() fixed
• calculate_modis_daily() is moved to auxiliary and keywords were changed likewise (#137)
• Added NEWS.md

[mitchellmanware]

This looks great, Insang. Thanks! I agree that version 1.2.0 is appropriate for such an update. Branch 1.1.4 was merged to main last week (https://github.com/NIEHS/amadeus/pull/141) (sorry for the confusing numbers, CRAN edits after branch creation caused version number differences), so the only suggestion would be to pull directly into main.

[sigmafelix]

@mitchellmanware Thank you for the quick reply! I will change the target to main.