NEWS.md

In CoordinateCleaner: Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records from Biological Collections

CoordinateCleaner 3.0 (2023-08-31)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Modified all functions to remove dependencies on sp, raster, and rgeos.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed minor errors in vignettes
• Added an option to buffer cc_sea and cc_coun
• Fixed minor bugs pointed out in issues

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-20 (2021-10-08)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed typos in vignette
• Fixed CRAN warning with rebuilding vignettes
• Removed defunct functions
• Added wordlist

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-19 (2020-10-13)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Adaption of the Description file style.

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-18 (2020-10-09)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Precomputed vignettes that need internet access

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-17 (2020-08-18)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused invalid polygons for cc_coun and cc_sea
• Added references for country centroids from other sources

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-16 (2020-06-19)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• added an option to adapt the geographic extent to the plotting method for objects of class "spatialvalid"
• fixed a bug with the handling of the outlier test in clean_coordinates
• improved the handling of large data.frames in the plotting method for objects of class "spatialvalid"
• readapted the default country columns name to the rnaturalearth column names

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-15 (2020-05-04)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• adapted the url format in the description files

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-14 (2020-05-04)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fixed a bug in cc_cen when setting an alternative reference
• added the ref_col argument to cc_coun to customize the column with ISO codes in the reference data
• adapted code to changes in sp and rgdal
• defunct CleanCoordinates, CleanCoordinatesDS, and CleanCoordinatesFOS
• fixed issue with input data.frame with unordered rownames in cc_outl
• fixed the 'ras not found' bug in cc_outl

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-13 (2019-06-18)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• addressed the "ras not found" bug in cc_outl

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-12 (2019-05-2)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• improved documentation of cc_outl
• improved handling of rownames in cc_outl

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-11 (2019-04-24)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• changes to the description file

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-10 (2019-04-23)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• improved error handling by cc_sea and cc_urb, in case the default reference cannot be obtained from the web
• added a reference for the methodology to the description file

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-9 (2019-04-02)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• recoded cc_outl, and added a thinning argument to account for sampling bias
• fixed a bug with the cc_outl test, that produced erroneous flags under some settings of mltpl
• extended the example dataset for the coordinate level-test suite to be more realistic

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-8 (2019-03-21)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• moved vignettes to online documentation
• added an area column to the countryref dataset
• fixed some minor spelling issues in the documentation

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-7 (2019-01-22)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• added citation
• reduced testing time on CRAN
• improved documentation of the cc_outl function

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-6 (2019-01-16)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• further url fixes

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-5 (2019-01-15)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fixed broken url to the CIA factbook

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-4 (2019-01-14)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• minor bugfix with cc_cap
• corrected duplicated vignette index entries
• updated maintainer email

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-3 (2018-10-22)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• removed convenience functionality to only download data from rnaturalearth at first use, to comply with CRAN guidelines

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-2 (2018-10-12)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• tutorial on outlier detection on the bookdown documentation
• tutorial on using custom gazetteers
• rasterisation heuristic in cc_outl
• added sampling correction to cc_outl
• added verify option to cc_inst
• transfer to rOpenSci

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• reduced packages size, by switching to data download from rnaturalearth for urbanareas and landmass
• fixed issue with names of plot.spatialvalid
• grouped functions on documentation webpage
• fixed broken links in the help pages ' improved documentation structure

CoordinateCleaner 2.0-1 (2018-06-08)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• changed and more consistent naming scheme for the functions

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• fixed typos in Readme
• set a download from naturalearth as default for cc_urb
• reduced vignette memory use and size
• enables sf format for custom references
• added speedup option for cc_sea
• added webpage (https://azizka.github.io/CoordinateCleaner/)

CoordinateCleaner 1.2-1 (2018-06-08)

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Adapted function and argument names consistently to underscore_case
• Simplified internal code structure of wrapper functions

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• adapted package to rOpenSci reviews

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• CleanCoordinates deprecated, replaced by clean_coordinates
• CleanCoordinatesDS deprecated, replaced by clean_dataset
• CleanCoordinatesFOS deprecated, replaced by clean_fossils
• WritePyrate deprecated, replaced by write_pyrate

CoordinateCleaner 1.1-1 (2018-05-15)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Switched documentation and NAMESPACE generation to roxygen2
• Switched from sapply to vapply
• Improved code readability

CoordinateCleaner 1.1-0 (2018-04-08)

NEW FEATURES

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Adaption of code to rOpenSci guidelines

BUG FIXES

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

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